This workshop provides a practical guideline to CGE modeling of open economies using data of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) which includes detailed national accounts on production and consumption together with bilateral trade flows for a large number of countries. The workshop will...

Courses: - Structural Econometrics and Market Responses in Imperfectly Competitive Industries (22 - 26 August 2016); - Treatment Effects and the Econometrics of Program Evaluation (29 August - 2 September 2016); - Competition, Regulation, and Risk-Taking in Banking (29 August - 2 September...

The program of the summer school consists of at least ten 90 minutes lectures and student presentations. Each of the 5 lecturers will talk about topics of his choice in economics. A few additional sessions will be allocated for short student presentations of their own research. In addition,...

The Methods School offers a wide variety of basic to advanced courses in quantitative, qualitative, and formal methods. This year's Methods School offers 15 quantitative, qualitative, and formal methods courses, such as Bayesian Analysis, Case Study Analysis, Data Visualization, Experimental...

First week topic: Big Data Econometrics and Machine Learning, Dates: July 4 through July 8, 2016. Second week topic: Methods for Evaluating Social Programs and for Duration Data Analysis, Dates: July 11 through July 15, 2016

Macroeconometrics is an important area of research in economics. Time series methods for empirical macroeconomics have become very popular and widely used in the academia as well as in public and private institutions. The goal of the Barcelona Macroeconometrics Summer School is to offer courses...

The increasing availability of individual data from surveys has led not only to a significant growth in the number of academic jobs of an empirical nature using this type of information but also to a greater number of studies commissioned by public and private institutions in which this type of...