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...

Most DSGE model used by policy institutions are generally of large scale and little attention is generally paid to issues like model misspecification, model evaluation, model reduction and re-specification. This course offers hints on how one can address these all these issues in a unified way...

The 24th EABCN training school will be a three days course on 'Advances in Bayesian Analysis of DSGE Models' taught by Professor Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania). The course will cover the recent advances in the Bayesian analysis of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics and...

The backlog of energy transactions built up during the crisis is starting to clear but there is still an important role for ECAs, development banks and multilateral institutions to play; particularly in emerging markets where long-term financing from the private sector is still behind pre-crisis...

The course will be based in part on Development Macroeconomics (P.R. Agénor and P.J. Montiel, 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 2008) and in part on some recent papers, published and unpublished. It will consist of five sessions: • Session 1. Infrastructure and Growth • Session 2. Public...

The conference agenda will focus on: - How much short term agency finance is available for exporters and local banks, and on what terms? - Multilateral and development bank assistance in a risk adverse and credit scarce financing environment - ECA coverage on export finance loans and ECA direct...

The global economic crisis has had dramatic effects on businesses active in Asia. With this in mind, ECAs, multilaterals and development banks are playing an increasing role to facilitate global trade and investments in and out of Asia. The Development and Agency Finance Asia Conference is a key...

Prof. Lawrence J. Christiano ( Northwestern University) Tentative course outline: 1. Structural Vector Autoregressions 2. Estimation of a DSGE model 3. Monetary policy analysis of DSGE models 4. Areas for further development of DSGE models 5. Applications of monetary policy analysis with DSGE models

Topics: 1. Diagnosis of labor market conditions and vulnerability in middle and low income countries. 2. Links between the business environment, labor demand and poverty reduction. 3. Benefits/costs of structural reforms and globalization for workers 4. Causes and consequences of formality and...