This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based...

The three Titans this year are influential alumni from the top three economics departments in the UK (Cambridge, LSE and Oxford), and will each be giving their predictions for how the UK economy will fare in 2014. - Kevin Daly is a senior economist on the Global Economics, Commodities and...

Papers from the following research areas are invited: - Game Theory - Behavioral Economics - Evolutionary Dynamics - General Equilibrium Theory - Decision Theory - Mathematical Finance - Industrial Organization - Computational Economics - Social and Economic Networks - Monetary Economic -...

The topics of the workshop include large dimensional panel data, factor models, random matrix theory, sparse high-dimensional models, model selection, model averaging, large financial data, and other high-dimensional econometric models.

The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, the ISF...

Recently, the economies of many countries have experienced severe shocks and crises. Substantial challenges to the stability of economic structures occurred. Modeling time-varying economic processes has become a topic of great interest. Forecasting in this context poses great challenges to both...

The workshop is thematically oriented towards empirical methods in macroeconomic policy analysis. Understanding macroeconomic phenomena and designing macroeconomic policies requires adequate tools for extracting useful information from existing data. Motivated by this observation and fueled by...

This one-week seminar will introduce central bankers to economic modelling techniques for monetary policy purposes by reviewing various modelling approaches: theoretical models of the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium type and estimated time-series models, including (semi) structural...