Africa is the world region with the strongest population dynamics, resulting in a young and aspiring population that is set to almost double by 2050. More than a fifth of the world’s population will then live in Africa. This offers great opportunities for businesses and countries seeking to...

The International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF) Programme is one of the three successors to the International Macroeconomics (IM) Programme, and this meeting replaces the Macroeconomics of Global Interdependence (MGI) Meeting. Topics: International macroeconomics and stabilisation policy;...

Conference Topics: - Household Finance and the Transmission of Monetary Policy, - Housing Markets and the Macroeconomy, - Balance Sheet Recovery of Households and Firms: What Can we Learn from Micro-Data? - Macroprudential Policies and the Housing Market, - Global Challenges from Asynchronous...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss applied economic research. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions from all fields of macroeconomics and international economics with an emphasis on a high relevance for economic policy. The special topic of the workshop will be capital...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics: - big data, unstructured data, high frequency data - forecasting inflation, exchange rates; finance and forecasting - forecasting in the presence of structural breaks - forecasting with dynamic...

Der Workshop widmet sich in zwei Panels den Fragen zur Zukunft des internationalen Handels und der europäischen Integration.

The Kieler Konjunkturgespräche (KKG) is the Kiel Institute’s flagship conference on international business cycle analysis. Here we share our research work and discuss global macroeconomic issues with other forecasters, policy-makers, and business leaders.

Topics: - Economic effects of migration - Barriers to the flow of goods and labor - Production and labor in the informal economy - International institutions and agreements, e.g., Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - European economies and globalization - Economic warfare and...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and business cycles, international...

Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva) The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics...