The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

This workshop aims to bring together economic theorists, applied economists, demographers, and economic historians working on unified growth theory. It will provide a forum for discussion of recent research on what facilitated the transition to self-sustaining growth. Some of the possible topics...

The IMF is forecasting a slowdown in world GDP growth, which would suggest that a new phase of the business cycle is beginning. Fears of financial fragility, concerns of falling house prices combined with inflationary pressures from rising commodity prices are leading to questions about the...

Der zweitägige Workshop soll ein Forum für den Austausch und die Diskussion von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen aus dem Bereich der Makroökonomik bieten und gleichzeitig zur besseren Vernetzung der Konjunkturforschung in Deutschland beitragen. Willkommen sind prinzipiell Vortragsangebote aus...

While foreign trade flows have always been seen as a major determinant of growth, recently globalisation and enhanced European integration (including EMU) have impacted on the size and direction of international flows, not only of goods but also of services, capital and labour. This conference...

This conference will provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues regarding the future of monetary policy design. Topics of particular interest include the optimal level of inflation, the zero bound on nominal interest rates, price-level...

The conference is organized by the Research Group 'Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risks: Measurement and Distribution', which is funded by the German Research Foundation. The group consists of researchers in financial economics, financial econometrics, and financial mathematics at the Universities...

Topics: - Relationship between statistical methods and business cycle theory - Estimation of potential output and output gap - Dating, detecting and forecasting turning points - Growth and cyclical convergence - Transmission of cyclical fluctuations - Forecasting methods for economic activity...

In the course we will begin by critically reviewing the most popular existing real and monetary models of the business cycle both of the real business cycle and the New Keynesian variaty. We will discuss micro data on price behavior and real relative prices across countries that is at odds with...

Topics: - Consumer Spending, Demand and Structural Change - Rising Income and Changes in Consumption - Structural Dynamics - Consumption and Economic Growth