Professors Eric Ghysels, Massimiliano Marcellino and Jonas Straukas will a three-day course entitled “What's New in Mixed Frequency Data (MIDAS), with Applications to Machine Learning and Big Data”. The focus of the course is the use of mixed frequency data in economics and finance. A...

By Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown University) And Michael Weber (University of Chicago). Inflation expectations are central to the intertemporal consumption, saving, and investment choices of households and firms and determine the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy. Interest in the...

James Morley, University of Sydney will teach an online course on "Business Cycle Measurement and Facts" at the EABCN Training School.

The class will cover basic theory of price and output determination in the New Keynesian models and the effect of monetary and fiscal policy. We will cover how the basic framework can explain not only the effect of monetary and fiscal policy under normal circumstances, but also conditions that...

The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding business cycle behaviour. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis and empirical papers. Topics: - Alternative...

This course covers empirical methods for inflation forecasting. However, many of the principles that seem to be useful in predicting inflation turn out to be important on other forecasting contexts too. For example, in inflation prediction and in other contexts, models which are very simple and...

The IMF is forecasting a slowdown in world GDP growth, which would suggest that a new phase of the business cycle is beginning. Fears of financial fragility, concerns of falling house prices combined with inflationary pressures from rising commodity prices are leading to questions about the...