The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. Topics: - Patterns of asset...

This workshop targets applied and theoretical research on household finance and economic stability. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the implications of household leverage for consumption, employment, house prices both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The...

The conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative research on long-term growth, the determinants of natural real interest rates, and secular stagnation and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. The Program Committee welcomes papers addressing (but not...

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...