This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

The conference aims to bring together female experts to present and discuss new research on macroeconomics and finance of particular interest to central banks. We welcome both empirical and theoretical contributions, on topics including, but not limited to, monetary policy, financial stability...

Topics: - Job flows, the Beveridge curve and mismatch - Adjustment to new technologies and globalisation - Demographics: aging, female participation and migration - Wage adjustments - Resilience to shocks.

The workshop this year tackles these steps of your research project: - Gathering data via (un)structured interviews and analysing standardised survey data and - using the computer for qualitative data analysis and as a tool for statistics. These steps will strengthen the cooperation in empirical...

Topics: - structural and reduced-form models of the inflation process, - causes of inflation persistence, - measurement of inflation and understanding inflation dynamics: the use of micro price data and other big data, - inflation through the lens of (global) Phillips curves and the...

The conference will focus on positive and normative studies of social insurance programmes including unemployment insurance, disability insurance, social security, and medical insurance. A large and increasing fraction of government budgets are allocated to these programmes. Their design varies...

This conference will bring together experts from all fields related to macroeconomic and financial forecasting to exchange new ideas on quantifying forecasting uncertainty and to put new insights from economic and statistical theory into practice in the current macroeconomic environment. The...

Papers on all fields of public finance are welcome. The particular focus of the 2016 annual conference will be on fiscal equalisation in Europe, including (but not restricted to) research on: - European unemployment insurance - Stabilisation effects of fiscal equalisation schemes - Political...

Topics: - The role of debt and leverage in macroeconomic dynamics, determinants of public and private debt sustainability, and the implications of simultaneous public and private deleveraging. - The sustainability of adjustments. - Early warning systems used to detect macroeconomic and fiscal...

The main theme of this year’s conference is "Real Estate, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy". A non-exhaustive list of potential topics: - Real estate "bubbles": identification and consequences for financial stability - Regulation of real estate financing, such as macroprudential...