The conference aims to bring together female experts to present and discuss new research on macroeconomics and finance of particular interest to central banks. We welcome both empirical and theoretical contributions, on topics including, but not limited to, monetary policy, financial stability...

Topics: - Job flows, the Beveridge curve and mismatch - Adjustment to new technologies and globalisation - Demographics: aging, female participation and migration - Wage adjustments - Resilience to shocks.

Topics: - structural and reduced-form models of the inflation process, - causes of inflation persistence, - measurement of inflation and understanding inflation dynamics: the use of micro price data and other big data, - inflation through the lens of (global) Phillips curves and the...

This conference will bring together experts from all fields related to macroeconomic and financial forecasting to exchange new ideas on quantifying forecasting uncertainty and to put new insights from economic and statistical theory into practice in the current macroeconomic environment. The...

Topics: - The role of debt and leverage in macroeconomic dynamics, determinants of public and private debt sustainability, and the implications of simultaneous public and private deleveraging. - The sustainability of adjustments. - Early warning systems used to detect macroeconomic and fiscal...

The workshop focuses on the empirical modelling of major transmission channels of financial market shocks using the global vector autoregressive (GVAR) framework. Understanding financial market interdependencies during times of significant monetary accommodation remains a key issue in current...

This biannual workshop provides a forum for the presentation of new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics that are of particular relevance to the 2014 workshop include: - forecasting in heterogeneous parameter and multi-country settings; - models for conditional forecasts and...

Topics: - nowcasting/forecasting consumer confidence, consumption, GDP growth, unemployment and other macroeconomic indicators; - nowcasting/forecasting consumer prices, property prices and other housing market variables, as well as financial market variables; - new methods of collecting...

Topics: - Assessment of the effectiveness and possible risks of non-standard monetary policy measures - The role of “forward guidance” for monetary policy in crisis and normal times as complement/substitute to non-standard measures - Means to provide and withdraw large amounts of liquidity...

The submission of research papers in the following fields is especially encouraged: 1. Macro-financial models linking financial stability and the performance of the economy 2. Models and tools for the early identification and assessment of systemic risk 3. Assessing contagion risks 4....