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 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...