The topics covered are likely to include: - an overview of aspects of the data justifying an analysis of financial frictions; - different ways of deviating from the frictionless benchmark: - costly state verification - collateral constraints - costly enforcement; - models of financial...

The following topics are likely to be covered: - basic optimisation techniques; - model microfoundations; - models of the business cycle, including models with financial frictions; - simple solution methods; - input data preparation and manipulation; - construction and estimation of small...

This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The following topics will be covered: - unit roots, cointegration and error-correction mechanisms; - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components,...

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 (DSGE) type and estimated time-series models, including (semi) structural...

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...

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 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 exercises. The following topics will be covered: • unit roots, cointegration and error-correction mechanisms; • techniques for...

Models are essential in developing rigorous, coherent and robust frameworks for economic analysis, thinking and policymaking in central banks. This one-week seminar focuses on the basics of economic modelling with a combination of lectures on introductory modelling theory and practical exercises...

The lags in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy mean that policymakers must forecast the future path of the economy. Accurate forecasts are only possible with a clear understanding of the structure of the economy and the shocks affecting it. This two-week seminar aims to improve...

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...