The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit empirical papers covering issues in all areas linking banking and institutions. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: - political economy of banking - financial stability - institutional underpinnings of financial...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the implications of the rise of intangible technologies. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between the rise of intangibles, firm dynamics, and industry-level and aggregate outcome. We...

The workshop covers new theoretical and applied research on financial, fiscal and monetary policies (and institutions) that can strengthen the euro area, as well as other economies, as to make them more resilient to financial, economic and social crises. Specific objectives include, but are not...

Under what conditions structural macroeconomic shocks can be identified with empirical time series models? Several influential papers have shown that, in many theoretical models, Structural VAR analysis is unable to correctly esimate the economic shocks of interest and their propagation...

This workshop focuses on the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions, such as adjustment costs, informational rigidities, search and matching frictions, costly reallocation, irreversibility, taxation, among others. Topics of particular interest include price and wage setting, capital...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the identification of the real effects of financial frictions. We are particularly interested in applied theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between financial frictions, micro- and macroeconomic shocks, and their...

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss a selected number of research papers focusing on the study of monetary policy and other central bank policies. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the role played by agents’ heterogeneity and financial frictions, the challenges...

This workshop will bring together applied economists working in the fields of global linkages, international economics, productivity growth and firms dynamics to discuss the most recent academic research. We are particularly (even though not exclusively) interested in contributions that analyze...

This workshop is focused on the interplay between economic geography, trade in products and production factors, and their relationship to economic growth. We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - The causes and consequences of the spatial...

This workshop aims at discussing research on the frontier of macro labor economics. We encourage theoretical and empirical submissions from all macro labor areas, including, but not limited to, discrimination in the labor market, search and matching, interactions between family and the labor...