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29 February, 2008

  Seventh EABCN training course on DSGE Models for Quantitative Business Cycle Analysis

The seventh training course will take place from 3-7 March 2008, hosted by Banco de España. It will focus on Using DSGE models for Quantitative Business Cycle Analysis. The instructor will be Professor Lawrence Christiano, who is is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where he holds the Alfred W. Chase Chair in Business Institutions

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  Workshop: Euro Area Data: Issues and Implications for Economic Analysis
The ninth EABCN workshop will take place in Cambridge from 27-28 March 2008.  Hosted by the University of Cambridge, it will focus on Euro Area Data: Issues and Implications for Economic Analysis. See:
Call for papers

Deadline was 14 December 2007 

  Updated version of the Euro area Real Time database

An updated version of the Euro area Real Time database is now available for download for the fellows of the EABCN. The database now comprises 238 variables and covers vintages up to the end of 2006. The database will be updated at a quarterly frequency from now on.

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  Workshop: Changes in Inflation Dynamics and Implications for Forecasting
The eighth EABCN workshop took place in Paris from 6-7 September 2007. Hosted by the Banque de France, it focused on Changes in Inflation Dynamics and Implications for Forecasting. See:

The programme and papers
A Report on the Workshop


  First EABCN annual grant awarded
The Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN) has awarded an annual grant to a PhD student for the first time in 2007 with the aim of fostering and promoting research on the analysis of Euro Area issues, in particular related to the Euro Area Business Cycle, and quantitative analyses on European data. The grant is for €5 000 and is awarded with the intent that the student will write a scientific paper with a theme related to the work of the EABCN.
The first grant was awarded to Nicholas Groshenny, Bocconi University, for a project on "Evaluating the Performance of the New-Keynesian Business Cycle Model: A comparison between the US and the Euro Area"

  Sixth EABCN training course on Forecast Evaluation

The sixth training course took place from 10-14 September 2007, hosted by Banco de Portugal. It will focus on Forecast Evaluation and Related Topics in Applied Time Series. The instructor was Professor Kenneth West, Ragnar Frisch Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

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  Updated version of the database underlying the Area Wide Model
An updated version of the database underlying the Area Wide Model by Gabriel Fagan, Jérôme Henry and Ricardo Mestre is now available for download to the fellows of the EABCN. The dataset covers a wide range of quarterly Euro Area macroeconomic time series and has become a standard reference for empirical studies on the Euro Area economy. The corresponding time series for euro area aggregates now cover the period up to 2005q4.
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Five years of Euro as legal tender: what effects is the common currency having on the business cycle of Euro Area countries?
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Cycles more similar
Cycles more dissimilar
Cycle relationship the same
Too early to say