The workshop will cover research broadly related to the determinants of child well-being and human capital development, including health as well as cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Examples may include: the effect of economic conditions on infant and child health, the impact of taxes and...

Under what conditions structural macroeconomic shocks can be identified with empirical time series models? Several influential papers have shown that, in many theoretical models, Structural VAR analysis is unable to correctly esimate the economic shocks of interest and their propagation...

This workshop focuses on the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions, such as adjustment costs, informational rigidities, search and matching frictions, costly reallocation, irreversibility, taxation, among others. Topics of particular interest include price and wage setting, capital...

The workshop aims to bring together research that analyzes several aspects of insurance against individual risk from a macroeconomic perspective. These aspects cover forms of (1) mutual insurance either from formal institutions (e.g general tax/transfer system, the pension system, unemployment...

This workshop is a forum for junior and senior experts to discuss cutting-edge research in the fields of economic growth and fluctuations (EGF). The workshop is open to the best type of research conducted in the EGF field. The workshop is not limited to any specific topic. We are regularly...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the identification of the real effects of financial frictions. We are particularly interested in applied theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between financial frictions, micro- and macroeconomic shocks, and their...

Formation, growth, and closure of firms are crucial for innovation, employment, and structural change in modern economies. The aim of this conference is to discuss recent scientific contributions on the interdependencies between finance, human capital, innovation activities, and investment...

Contributions on the econometric evaluation of policies fighting social exclusion are welcome. A non-exhaustive list of topics is: - Policies for long-term unemployed and welfare recipients - Econometric methods of evaluation - Rehabilitation policies - Policies for socially excluded and...

The IJCB is initiating two series of annual research conferences that will bring together leading economists from central banks and academic institutions to consider issues of critical importance for policymaking. Each spring conference will focus on topics related to financial stability; each...

The conference aims to bring together experts in inflation pricing and hedging, inflation-indexed issuer asset-liability management, and macroeconomics. Particular topics of the conference could include: welfare benefits of inflation-protected securities; estimation of the inflation risk...