This conference will examine the process of EU economic convergence in its various forms and consider its driving factors. How can we spot the crucial trends in convergence and how can they help us understand and stimulate the process? What roles do education, structural funds and regional...

The meeting will be the fifth event in the annual conferences series "New Developments in Business Cycle Analysis" bringing together economists from academia and central banks focused on understanding the impact of cross-sectional heterogeneity on the macroeconomic environment, and its...

Conference Programme: - The cyclical sensitivity in estimates of potential output, - Accounting for medium-run macro-finance trends, - The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach, - Mortgage market design: Lessons from the Great Recession, - The economics of the Fed put, -...

We welcome any contributions on these topics, particularly those that focus on the following four areas: - The cyclical position of trade: Empirical studies on the cyclical dynamics of trade, short- and medium-term forecasting models, and trend/cycle decompositions. - Structural changes and...

Programme: Panel 1: Scars or scratches: how damaging is the fall-out from the crisis for the real economy and the natural rate of interest? Panel 2: The financial sector and prudential policies in the new normal. Panel 3: Monetary policy beyond normalisation: objectives and instruments.

Conference Topics: - Household Finance and the Transmission of Monetary Policy, - Housing Markets and the Macroeconomy, - Balance Sheet Recovery of Households and Firms: What Can we Learn from Micro-Data? - Macroprudential Policies and the Housing Market, - Global Challenges from Asynchronous...

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 capital...

Topics: - measurement of firm productivity, productivity dispersion, and their development over time; - firm internal determinants of productivity and productivity dispersion; - impact of external factors (e.g., institutions) on productivity and productivity dispersion; - impact of globalization...

The objective of the conference is to discuss recent scientific contributions to the economics of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the economics of ICT industries. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions are welcome. Topics: Software and Internet industries;...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics: - big data, unstructured data, high frequency data - forecasting inflation, exchange rates; finance and forecasting - forecasting in the presence of structural breaks - forecasting with dynamic...