What has your Big Data-based research brought to light? What new methods for exploiting this new resource for research have you used or developed? Where do you see new fields of research being made possible by adding Big Data to the toolbox? CESifo and the ifo Institute are inviting submissions...

The following courses will be offered: - Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Modeling Step-By-Step ; - Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with GAMS ; - Macroeconometric Modeling, Forecasting, and Policy Analysis using EViews ; - Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS ; -...

This two-day online international workshop will gather doctoral students involved in research in the field of the Economics of Digitalization with both theoretical and empirical focus. Topics of Interest: Telecommunications ; Internet and Software Industries ; Regulation and Competition Policy...

The following courses will be offered: Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS - December 5, 2022 - December 9, 2022 Intensive course at the introductory level. For those who have little or no experience in modeling and in GAMS. The course will introduce all the basic tools for...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

The workshop aims at presenting, discussing, and sharing experiences regarding advanced features and expert use of Dynare. It welcomes and stimulates exchanges and contributions with/from the audience. The 2022 iteration of the workshop will focus on the following topics: - Solving and...

This seminar helps early stage PhD candidates design their research project. In particular, participants will: - acknowledge process, philosophical, and methodological ambiguities in their research; - understand the interplay between theory, method, data, rhetoric, and authorship in their...

Data has always been a key tool in economics research. But Big Data goes beyond being a mere tool: it is opening new fields of research and also helping to gain fresh insights that were previously out of reach. This workshop will review how Big Data is being used by young scholars, what new...

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions in the form of high-quality research papers related to stress testing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The role of stress testing in microprudential and macroprudential supervision; - The design of macroeconomic scenarios...

Professors Eric Ghysels, Massimiliano Marcellino and Jonas Straukas will a three-day course entitled “What's New in Mixed Frequency Data (MIDAS), with Applications to Machine Learning and Big Data”. The focus of the course is the use of mixed frequency data in economics and finance. A...