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...

By Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown University) And Michael Weber (University of Chicago). Inflation expectations are central to the intertemporal consumption, saving, and investment choices of households and firms and determine the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy. Interest in the...

James Morley, University of Sydney will teach an online course on "Business Cycle Measurement and Facts" at the EABCN Training School.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: - The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises; - Macro and Micro Skewness and Volatility Over the Business Cycle; - Do We Need Traditional Dealers in OTC Markets?; - U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity; - Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market...

The class will cover basic theory of price and output determination in the New Keynesian models and the effect of monetary and fiscal policy. We will cover how the basic framework can explain not only the effect of monetary and fiscal policy under normal circumstances, but also conditions that...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

The current macroeconomic environment of low interest rates, low inflation and (in some cases) low growth has been going on for a prolonged period of time in many advanced countries, spurring a debate on both its causes and its policy implications: Why is inflation falling short of central...

The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding business cycle behaviour. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis and empirical papers. Topics: - Alternative...

This course covers empirical methods for inflation forecasting. However, many of the principles that seem to be useful in predicting inflation turn out to be important on other forecasting contexts too. For example, in inflation prediction and in other contexts, models which are very simple and...

European institutions and European integration have recently undergone a serious test in the wake of the financial, economic and fiscal crises. While the euro has supported the integration process and has protected the members of the monetary union from internal exchange rate shocks, the crisis...