Conference themes: I. China, human security, and conflict resolution; II. China and global development after the financial crisis; III. China and the changing architecture of global governance; IV. Representations of China within the global order; V. Mapping the future global order.

This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based...

The topics of the workshop include large dimensional panel data, factor models, random matrix theory, sparse high-dimensional models, model selection, model averaging, large financial data, and other high-dimensional econometric models.

The aim of this conference is to explore the role of rising powers in the re-structuring of the global economy and the challenges and tensions which their rise may provoke. Amongst the questions we will be asking are: How might the rise of the BRICS impact upon the International Financial...

The aim of the conference is to bring together economists, econometricians, statisticians and social scientists interested in or working on panel data issues. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers that cover a broad spectrum of theoretical and applied panel data research.

The aim of the conference is to provide a context in which alternative strategies and models of growth for the European economy can be proposed, debated, evaluated and assessed by academics and policy-makers alike. We invite papers and proposals for panels and roundtables on the following...

Many experts have predicted the end of US dominance of world markets following the current business cycle. Needless to say, this will have strategic significance for the businesses at large as well as for those responsible for country management. The basic objective of the conference would then...

This one-week seminar will introduce central bankers to economic modelling techniques for monetary policy purposes by reviewing various modelling approaches: theoretical models of the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium type and estimated time-series models, including (semi) structural...

The Conference provides a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Economics of the MNEs, Migration and Labour...

Recent years have seen an increasing use in economics and finance of models employing large datasets, involving the estimation of large number of parameters. The severe computational problems that these models involve have partly motivated the huge body of contributions on stationary and non...