The conference will cover a broad range of themes related to empirical aspects of business cycles - in particular novel methodologies for dating business cycles and their effects on the economy. Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: - Dating Business Cycles, - Empirical...

The purpose of the IRFMP is to promote the discussion of innovative research on theoretical and empirical macroeconomic issues with relevance for monetary policy. Topics: - factors accounting for very low global real interest rates; - whether central banks have adequate scope to ease policy in a...

The conference seeks to bring together innovative theoretical and empirical work advancing our knowledge on asset price behaviour, addressing the following (non-exclusive) list of topics: - New explanations for aggregate asset price fluctuations (bond prices, stock prices, housing prices) -...

In many European economies, the recovery following the financial crisis has proven either sluggish or non-existent. Many countries suffer from persistently high levels of unemployment, coupled with sluggish credit dynamics and stretched fiscal budgets. These outcomes put pressure on policymakers...

The recent turbulent times have revived the interest in business cycle analysis, forecasting and methods to assess the effects of economic policies. This, in turn, has generated the development of refined or totally new econometric methods, in particular based on Bayesian techniques. The...

Judgement and expert knowledge is widely thought to be important in the successful practice of forecasting. For policymakers, forecasts also embody judgements about the state of the economy, the transmission of shocks and optimal policy responses which necessitate the use of structural models....

This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various issues related to inflation developments, offering new perspectives on structural analysis, forecasting and economic policy design and assessment. Possible topics include: - Heterogeneity of...

In an increasingly integrated global economy, assessing the propagation of shocks is becoming of major interest to the international economic cycles analysis. This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various spillover effects at a global...

The conference will be based around the themes of: • Econometrics and Empirics of the Crisis • Macroeconomic and Financial Risk • Credit Frictions and the New New Macro • Monetary and Fiscal Policy Responses to the Crisis

Given the depth of the current recession and the increasing use of unorthodox stabilisation policy the research agenda associated with the Great Moderation and the consensus it produced is increasingly coming under question. This conference aims to consider whether such questioning is necessary...