The goal of the Barcelona Macroeconometrics Summer School is to offer courses covering a wide range of topics in macroeconometrics. The courses have the following objectives: - To provide students with knowledge of a set of modern time series methods necessary for empirical research in...

Course Content: The increasing availability of individual data from surveys has led not only to a significant growth in the number of academic jobs of an empirical nature using this type of information but also to a greater number of studies commissioned by public and private institutions in...

In the last decades spatial econometrics has reached a mature stage of development with a well-consolidated body of methodologies and with applications in so many diverse scientific fields that it is almost impossible to fully enumerate them. Indeed, in the literature we can find applications in...

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics - Current account imbalances and international capital flows - Global financial crises - Open-economy macroeconomic models - Exchange rates - International dimensions of monetary and fiscal policy - Sovereign risk

The idea of the conference is to bring together economists who have recently contributed new research on the interlinkages between current account imbalances and financial factors.

The 2013 SEA World Conference plans to explore empirical, theoretical and methodological themes, including: Economic Growth, Knowledge Diffusion, Labor Market and Migration, Explanatory spatial data analysis, Bayesian methods, Health, Criminology, Environmental Economics and Energy, Spatial data...

Papers presented address topics such as the role of capital flow management measures as a policy instrument and their spillovers, the role of banks in international business cycles, exchange rate policy, and international debt deleveraging.

The VI World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA) has the objective to bring together economists, econometricians and regional scientists to discuss the present achievements and future challenges and opportunities in spatial data analysis. The 2012 SEA World Conference plans...

The reform process triggered by the recent financial crisis is gradually making progress. Advances are underway in the area of banking regulation, accounting standards, and market infrastructure (e.g. clearing houses for derivatives, etc.). A new framework for macroprudential policy is also...

Topics: - Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact - Financial stability of the EMU - The role of ECB - Fiscal imbalances and sovereign default in the EU - Debt consolidation strategies - Dealing with Current Account Imbalances - The role of EURO in the emerging world monetary system