The purpose of the Conference is to focus on a new form of capitalism under the pressure of the global change and to support the environmental and social sustainability of the economic growth, in an area in which the process of globalization is questioned and developed countries have to face...

Topics: - Globalization (Sharing globalization benefits and compensate the losers; Demographic Changes, social inclusiveness and migration; Protectionism and welfare in a globalized world; Declining labor shares and technological change; Skills polarization and wages), - Trade (Trade and...

Main topics: - The Robustness of Globalization Theory. Trade Liberalization and its Benefits; - Globalization, Inequality and Social Inclusion; - The United States and the Protectionist option: a New Trade Deal?; - How Scary is Disruptive Technology? Perspectives on Employment; - The Upcoming...

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course entitled "Term structure models and the zero lower bound". Dr Jens Christensen will teach the course. Jens Christensen is a senior economist in the Financial Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of...

The course will cover both the theoretical and empirical issues related to finance and the macroeconomy through the lenses of financial accelerator type models.

This course covers empirical methods for volatility measurement, modelling and forecasting. Part 1 considers the highly parametric setting of GARCH models as well as the more complex setting of stochastic volatility models. Part 2 focuses on the relatively simple modelfree realized volatility...