This course provides a state of the art overview of complex economic systems with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The leading paradigm in macroeconomics assumes that economic agents (households, firms, investors) are perfectly rational in making their decisions. Experimental and...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts with an introduction to models of firm dynamics and innovation. Next, attention is paid to estimation of...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts with an introduction to models of firm dynamics. Next, attention is paid to estimation of productivity, including...

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

Proposed conference themes: Theme 1 - CCP default management; recovery and resolution; Theme 2 - FMI operations – technology; FMI applications of fintech; operational risk management; Theme 3 - FMI networks, interdependencies and resilience. Submissions are encouraged from policy-makers,...

Conference Themes: - Measuring asset risk over the cycle - Correlated risks in asset and funding choices - Measuring the quality of capital and bail in capacity - Optimal design of going-concern contingent capital - Prevention versus risk absorption - Asset encumbrance and run risk - Allocation...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - The theory of employment and unemployment - Possibilities and limitations of monetary and fiscal policy - Labour market institutions, active labour market policies, and decent jobs - Industrial policy, productivity and...

Over the past few decades ties between financial markets worldwide have become stronger as a result of developments in IT, the liberalization of financial markets and increased cross-border competition among financial intermediaries. The developments in the payment and securities settlement...

The organizers welcome theoretical and applied papers from a variety of areas and disciplines. Potential topics include: - Heterogenous agent-based models of the financial sector - Network topology and financial stability - Models of expectation formation and herding - Integration of financial...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - Global imbalances after the crisis - High debt of firms, governments and households and economic dynamics - Macroeconomic imbalances and public debt in the euro area - Macroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal...