We welcome submissions from a broad range of themes related to the consequences of the Covid-19 shock for empirical macroeconomics. Topics of the conference include but are not limited to - Rare events and disaster-type shocks; - Measuring economic uncertainty and its effects; - Nowcasting and...

The workshop covers recent advances in macroeconomics, with sessions on the effects of imperfect information, heterogeneous agents, and the communication and transmission of monetary policy.

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...

Traditionellerweise wird in der Makroökonomie angenommen, dass der Unternehmens- bzw. Haushaltssektor aus jeweils identischen Einheiten bestehen, die ihren Gewinn bzw. ihren Nutzen maximieren wollen. Tatsächlich besteht die Wirtschaft aber aus vielen heterogenen Agenten. Dies wird nicht...

Rational inattention Asset pricing implications of Pareto optimality with private information Inflation and the price of real assets In search of distress risk Ultra high frequency data and market microstructure noise Monetary policy as risk management Robust control and misspecification Optimal...