The main aim of this 25 hours course is to provide an introduction to applied macroeconomics and macroeconometrics with MATLAB. The approach is problem based, i.e. students will be made familiar with the software using well-known examples from both economic theory and applied econometrics.

The summer school is intended primarily for Ph.D. students, but also for post-docs and beginning faculty in Economics, Psychology, and related disciplines The general aim of the Summer School is to provide participants with an interdisciplinary and open-minded view of the study of economic...

Topics of interest include: - happiness and social interactions in the production and consumption spheres - interpersonal climate, organizational performance and worker satisfaction - implicit prices of quantity and characteristics of social interactions - experimental studies of personalized...

The main topic of the conference will be applied macroeconomic forecasting with special emphasis on the following subjects: - forecasting with business surveys data; - forecasting with real time macroeconomic data; - detecting and forecasting turning points; - forecasts combination and model...