We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

Do sanctions strengthen the targeted regime? I analyze the 2014 imposition of Western sanctions on Russia and its impact on voting. The United States and the European Union introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to President Putin’s regime. Using polling...

The conference welcomes papers from all areas of the small business and entrepreneurship. The conference will feature a mix of special theme tracks, general tracks and paper development tracks. Special theme tracks will focus on research themes that are central in Nordic research on small...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

Due to the coronavirus health crisis, the Barcelona CREI Macroeconomics Summer School 2021 has been cancelled. Our highest priority is the safety of our course participants, instructors and staff. The Barcelona CREI Macroeconomics Summer School will return in summer 2022.

The ECSB Doctoral Workshop is truly a meeting place for both new and experienced researchers from all over Europe and an ideal place to start networking. We particularly encourage students in the early stages of their research to participate as a way of launching themselves into the...

Barcelona Summer School 2020 has been cancelled.

Barcelona Summer School 2020 has been cancelled.

Macroeconometrics is an important area of research in economics. Time series methods for empirical macroeconomics have become very popular and widely used in the academia as well as in public and private institutions. The goal of the Barcelona GSE Macroeconometrics Summer School is to offer...

The Barcelona CREI Macroeconomics Summer School offers an overview of the current state of research in key areas of macroeconomics. Eight courses will be offered in the CREI-Macroeconomics Summer School: - An Introduction to the New Keynesian Framework and its Monetary Policy Applications -...