Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

Empirical Methods in Money Macro - Maik Wolters (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) This course deals with the analysis of dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium models. The focus of this course is on methodological aspects related to the analysis of business cycle models. In particular we...

The conference seeks to explore the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy, particularly but not exclusively in monetary unions. Conference topics: - challenges of a single monetary policy with decentralised fiscal policies, - the impact of fiscal policies on prices and output, - the impact...

The workshop focuses on the empirical modelling of major transmission channels of financial market shocks using the global vector autoregressive (GVAR) framework. Understanding financial market interdependencies during times of significant monetary accommodation remains a key issue in current...

The objective of the conference is to assess the role of financial regulation in competition among financial services providers in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Topics of interest include: international differences in financial sector regulation; regulatory arbitrage; regulatory...

Topics relating to money markets: - The functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment - The impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation; empirical studies on segmentation in the euro...

The series of biennial conferences on statistics held by the ECB provides an important forum for the exchange of views on requirements, opportunities and challenges for statistics for central bank policy-making. The 2014 conference will bring together users and compilers of statistics from...

Workshop contents Part 1: GAMS, Economic Equilibrium and Mixed Complementarity Part 2: CGE Models – Structure, Functional Forms and Calibration Part 3: International Trade, Climate Policy and GTAPinGAMS Part 4: Advanced Trade Theories and Climate Policy Applications

Monetary Theory and Policy - Simon Gilchrist (Boston University and NBER) This course examines theoretical foundations of New Keynesian Models and their implications for the conduct of monetary policy. The course emphasizes empirically relevant models that are suitable for policy analysis. The...

Topics: - The tradeoff between the speed of fiscal consolidation and the strength of anti-cyclical policy in the current macroeconomic environment and in general, - The roles played by different fiscal policy instruments, - The effects of anti-cyclical policy in theory and in practice, -...