In the aftermath of the crisis, this workshop will focus on employment creation as a means of remedying the strong rises in unemployment seen in some economies. The workshop will pay particular attention to the factors behind, and pre-requisites for, the creation of high quality and high...

Topics: - Household consumption, saving, and portfolio choice - Housing, mortgage markets, and financial markets - Household finance, credit constraints and monetary policy - Household indebtedness and financial distress - Household finances and the financial and economic crisis - Financing...

Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...

Topics: - the functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment; - the impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation, including empirical studies on segmentation in the money markets of...

This workshop provides an opportunity for all those interested in Applied Macroeconomics and Labour Economics to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the workshop’s topics.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together European applied macroeconomists to discuss current frontier research on a regular basis. Applications from economists from all French and European institutions are welcomed in all fields of applied macroeconomics including financial, international,...

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...

This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners interested in the short- and long-term development of the European economy and its international relations to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both theoretical and empirical...

Ever since the outbreak of the global financial crisis after Lehman Brothers filed bankruptcy in September 2008, central banks across the globe have reacted with an unprecedented expansion of money supply. The profession is split on the assessment of those policies. While many deem it a...