This conference provides a forum of discussion between advanced PhD/postdoctoral students in Macroeconomics and established researchers in their field. The conference contains parallel, invited and plenary sessions. Theoretical and empirical papers in macroeconomics are welcome.

Topic: all areas of macroeconomics and finance in emerging markets

Conference Programme: - Fiscal policy and the great recession in the euro area - Fiscal policy, default risk and euro area sovereign bond spread - Classical time-varying FAVAR models: estimation, forecasting and structural analysis - When is quantitative easing effective? - Exit strategies -...

The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation of recent theoretical and empirical contributions regarding the role of real-time and survey data in forecasting macroeconomic and financial variables. The recent period of heightened economic and financial uncertainty has demonstrated the...