The conference will cover a variety of themes related to upcoming macroeconomic risks and the policies needed to tackle them. These topics include (but are not limited to): - Inflation risk and monetary policy ; - Polarization within a monetary union ; - Managing global debt ; - Advances in the...

The conference is planned as an in-person event. Should travel restrictions bind by the time of the conference, we will allow speakers to participate on-line if needed. We welcome submissions of theoretical or empirical papers addressing issues including (but not limited to): - Business cycles...

Workshop Program: Session 1: International Macro and Uncertainty; Session 2: What is happening to the Phillips curve?;

The BdF-CEPR are organizing a conference on December 6th, 2019, bringing together leading researchers from academia, central banks and other policy institutions to present research findings related to the effects of heterogeneity on the conduct of monetary policy. Recent research has...

The goal of the conference is to gather researchers working on price dynamics from a theoretical and empirical point of view, in particular based on micro data. Leading researchers on the topic will present papers investigating price setting, rigidity, and dispersion, and effects on inflation...

The conference seeks to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss the aggregate implications of structural reforms, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Topics: - The macroeconomic impact of structural reforms, both in the short and long run - The optimal timing of...

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 workshop will bring together academic scholars and economists from central banks and international institutions. The program will cover the role of financial and macroeconomic factors in oil price dynamics, forecasting methods of its future evolution, and the role of oil exports in the...

In the wake of the financial and banking crisis, virtually all industrialized countries have experienced a very severe economic recession during the years 2008 and 2009, sometimes referred to as the Great Recession. Several stylized facts have been put forward during this Great Recession such as...

Topics: 1. The Euro Debt crisis - Sovereign default, bailouts and moral hazard in a monetary union - Real and nominal convergence in a monetary union - Fiscal dimensions of regional and global financial crises - The political economy of debt crises and policy responses 2. The global economy...