The APRM brings together government ministers, representatives of workers' and employers' organizations, and academics from Asia, the Pacific and the Arab States. The APRM will discuss concrete steps to drive job-rich growth that is inclusive and transformative and offers a timely opportunity to...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have created a deep global recession, induced massive government interventions and forced a change in the social and economic behaviour of economic agents. This raises many questions about the path to economic recovery and the...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. For more than a decade the world economy has operated under elevated economic, financial and political risks, and it has recently been hit by economic shutdowns of unprecedented length owing to the...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of its Cooperatives Unit (COOP), the ILO aims to bring together scholars and practitioners working with governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) for a two-day international...

Topics of interest: - inflation dynamics and monetary policy; - determinants of inflation expectations and their relationship with observed inflation; - input costs – including wages, intermediate inputs, commodity prices and international components of costs – and their role in inflation...

Worksop Programme: - Money and banking in a New Keynesian model - Monetary policy, corporate finance and investment - Sentimental business cycles - Monetary policy and heterogeneity: an analytical framework - Intrinsic expectations persistence - Distributional effects of monetary policy -...

Thematic plenary sitting: - Policies for sustainable, productive development for sustained and inclusive growth, with more and better decent jobs. - Policies to promote the transition from the informal to the formal economy and to respond to accelerating technological change and to diverse forms...

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...

The ECB Forum on Central Banking is an annual event organised by the European Central Bank in the beautiful surroundings of Sintra in Portugal. It provides a unique opportunity for central bank governors, academics, specialised journalists and high-level financial market representatives to...

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...