DAY 1 - Sessions 1: - Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh; - The Sustainable Quality Program in the Colombia Coffee Chain; - Motivating Farmer Trainers. Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda; - An Aspiring Friend Is a Friend Indeed: School Peers and...

The Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) and the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) invite paper submissions on the relationships between finance and labor. While the conference is open to all topics in this...

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course entitled "Term structure models and the zero lower bound". Dr Jens Christensen will teach the course. Jens Christensen is a senior economist in the Financial Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of...

The Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) and the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) invite paper submissions on the relationships between finance and labor. While we are open to all topics, preference will be...

The course will cover both the theoretical and empirical issues related to finance and the macroeconomy through the lenses of financial accelerator type models.

This course covers empirical methods for volatility measurement, modelling and forecasting. Part 1 considers the highly parametric setting of GARCH models as well as the more complex setting of stochastic volatility models. Part 2 focuses on the relatively simple modelfree realized volatility...

The conference theme of 2011 is "Econometrics for Policy Analysis: after the Crisis and Beyond". Theoretical and applied contributions are invited and we particularly welcome contributions focusing on econometric methods and models that can assist in the formulation, implementation and...

Maria Concetta Chiuri was Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Mathematics of the University of Bari. Her research interests covered a variety of topics related to important policy issues, such as household decision-making process, housing market imperfections, illegal...

Italian scholars in economics who have just completed their PhD dissertation or will have it finished by next academic year are invited to submit one of their papers at the workshop. Original theoretical and empirical contributions will be considered for selection.