The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and business cycles, international...

Topics: - Univariate and multivariate density forecasts: evaluation, combination, presentation - Applications of unobserved component models, non-linear or non-Gaussian models - Modelling of structural instabilities and time varying relationships - Incorporating short time series and experts’...

This course will introduce the main methods of microsimulation, with an emphasis on the practical development of policy applications. The course will explore basic techniques in static microsimulation for use in the distributional analysis across representative samples of economic agents – for...

The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students.

Topics are welcome from all areas of economics, as long as the focus is on search, matching or information frictions. However, preference is given to researchers in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and labor economics.

The following topics are likely to be covered: - basic optimisation techniques; - model microfoundations; - models of the business cycle, including models with financial frictions; - simple solution methods; - input data preparation and manipulation; - construction and estimation of small...