The conference will cover a broad range of themes related to empirical aspects of business cycles - in particular novel methodologies for dating business cycles and their effects on the economy. Topics of the conference include but are not limited to: - Dating Business Cycles, - Empirical...

This triennial Forum is the most important social security event in the region. In a rapidly evolving world, it will provide a unique platform to discuss key social security challenges, be inspired by innovative solutions and define strategies to shape the future of social security in...

The purpose of the IRFMP is to promote the discussion of innovative research on theoretical and empirical macroeconomic issues with relevance for monetary policy. Topics: - factors accounting for very low global real interest rates; - whether central banks have adequate scope to ease policy in a...

The Forum will provide a key platform for participants to share information and discuss the most important regional social security challenges and priority issues in the Americas. The Forum is open to ISSA members from the Americas and invited participants only.

The Forum will provide a key platform for participants to share information and discuss the most important regional social security challenges and priority issues in Africa. Member institutions will be invited to identify innovative responses and shape the programme in a survey, which will be...

The conference seeks to bring together innovative theoretical and empirical work advancing our knowledge on asset price behaviour, addressing the following (non-exclusive) list of topics: - New explanations for aggregate asset price fluctuations (bond prices, stock prices, housing prices) -...

In many European economies, the recovery following the financial crisis has proven either sluggish or non-existent. Many countries suffer from persistently high levels of unemployment, coupled with sluggish credit dynamics and stretched fiscal budgets. These outcomes put pressure on policymakers...

The Conference will provide a unique global platform for the analysis and discussion of some of the critical issues facing social security institutions and their management of ICT. The Conference will feature contributions from diverse social security institutions in all regions as well as...

The recent turbulent times have revived the interest in business cycle analysis, forecasting and methods to assess the effects of economic policies. This, in turn, has generated the development of refined or totally new econometric methods, in particular based on Bayesian techniques. The...

Conference Topics: - recent developments in heterogeneous-agent modeling; - the empirics of heterogeneity: micro data collection and model testing; - effects of monetary and fiscal policies in heterogeneous-agent economies; - macroeconomic drivers of inequality.