Theme: Globalization at the Crossroads: Risk, Resilience and Recalibration in Global Trade and Value Chains. Key questions to be discussed at the FGI 2020 are as follows: - How can we understand value chain risk as a result of external shocks and emerging mega-trend and do we need to rethink...

Theme: High dimensional modeling in time series. EC-squared is a series of annual international conferences on research in quantitative economics and econometrics. The acronym (EC)^2 stands for the European Conferences of the Econom[etr]ics Community. Its main aim is to maintain and extend an...

The 2020 May RIDGE Forum has been postponed following guidance of public health officials to December. The RIDGE forums aim at the spreading of high quality research in economics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers...

The PEWS 2020 conference, World-Systems Analysis in a Critical Juncture, has been reimagined as a virtual seminar series running from September 25th through December 4th, 2020. Both the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins have cancelled in-person classes, meetings, and events until further...

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...

Die 18. efas-Fachtagung reflektiert die aktuelle Situation von Frauen in der Corona-Krise. Die Krise macht sichtbar, welche ökonomischen und sozialpolitischen Verhältnisse defizitär sind, allen voran die Art und Weise, wie Care in unserer Gesellschaft organisiert ist. Sie zeigt auf, wie stark...

Topics: China’s trade and global production chains; China’s financial liberalization; China’s exchange rate policy; The Belt and Road Initiative; China’s corporate reform and performance; Alternative financial intermediation methods; Ownership structure and firm behavior; Capital Market and...

Programme: - High-frequency Monitoring of Growth-at-Risk; - Uncertain Kingdom: Nowcasting GDP and revisions; - Real-time Weakness of the Global Economy: A First Assessment of the Coronavirus Crisis; - Nowcasting Tail Risks to Economic Activity with Many Indicators; - Advances in Nowcasting...

Topics: Banking, Business valuation, Business valuation standards, Controlling, Corporate governance, Financial management tools, Financial market, Financial market instruments, Financial planning, Intangible asset valuation, International financial management, Investment appraisal, Measurement...

Empirical research in economics typically focuses on the unbiased estimation of causal effects. In contrast, statistics and computer science place more value on prediction (especially out-of-sample) and data-driven selection of models and variables. So far, only few studies apply these methods...