Preliminary Programme: Session 1 - Monetary policy modelling in low interest rate and low inflation environment ; Session 2 - Models for macroprudential analysis ; Session 3 - Forecasting models – Nowcasting with rich datasets.

Original papers subject to high academic standards and preferably with important policy or practical implications are invited, for example, on the following topics, though not restricted to them: - The growth an business cycle effects of shifting demographics - Demographics and the financial...

Agent-based models have become an important framework for analyzing complex macroeconomic dynamics resulting from the interaction of heterogeneous agents with bounded rationality. This framework frees the modeler from the constraints imposed by the substantive rationality, equilibrium, and...

We encourage research on the importance of behavioural biases and expectations formation and behavioural bi-ases for business cycle fluctuations and invite papers on the implications of these biases and of alternative expec-tations formation mechanisms for modelling business cycle fluctuations...