Conferences & Workshops
A popular assumption in monetary economics in the last ten year has been to abstract from the presence of money supply. The premise seems to be that movements in the money supply are not an important determinant of monetary policy. Much of the recent policy interventions have been about influencing the money supply. the effect of these so-called "unconventional" measures can only be analysed with models where the money supply does play a role. This conference aims at discussing models where the role of money supply is addressed directly.
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Deadline: February 24, 2012
A number of issues pertaoning to fiscal and monetary policy have been brought to the center stage of both policy debates and academic research in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis. The conference aims to bring together some of the recent papers on the topics listed below.
1) Debt consolidation, fiscal rules, debt sustainability, sovereign debt crises and default;
2) Fiscal and monetary policy in a liquidity trap, financial frictions;
3) Policy coordination and spillovers in an open economy or in a monetary union.
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The global financial crisis has emphasized the close linkages between macroeconomic and financial conditions, stimulating theoretical and empirical research on how to formally include these linkages into economic and econometric models, and on how to use the resulting models for structural analysis, forecasting, and economic policy design and assessment exercises. The conference focused on the econometric aspects of the macro-financial linkages.
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Global imbalances are widely seen to have been a contributory cause to the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. The recession saw a sharp fall in trade and greater than usual synchronised declines across nations. A financial crisis in the US produced a sharp recession in Europe. The importance of spillovers between Emerging and Western Europe became apparent. In turn recovery is taking shape in different ways across different countries. There is a growing belief that understanding world business cycles will require greater understanding of the business cycle in emerging markets as well as global interactions between countries. The conference was hosted by Magyar Nemzeti Bank on 28-29 June 2010.
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The EABCN, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank organized the 6th ECB Workshop on Forecasting Techniques on the topic “Forecasting, real-time and survey data”. The workshop was held in Frankfurt am Main on March 5-6 2010. The workshop provided a forum for the presentation of recent theoretical and empirical contributions on the role of real-time and survey data in forecasting macroeconomic and financial variables.
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Given the depth of the current recession and the increasing use of unorthodox stabilisation policy the research agenda associated with the Great Moderation and the consensus it produced is increasingly coming under question. The aim of this conference was to consider whether such questioning is necessary and across a range of topics, examine the issues and methods that may begin to emerge amongst academics and policymakers.
The conference was held in Amsterdam, September 21-22.
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The business cycle and uncertainty are intimately linked in numerous dimensions. This conference brought together academics and policymakers to consider both theoretically and empirically these linkages. Suggested topics were:
The second EABCN Conference took place in Barcelona from 21-23 November 2008. Hosted by the CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), the conference took a broad view of business cycle development, focusing on particular on four themes: Oil and Commodity Markets, Housing and the Business Cycle, Financial Intermediation and the Transmission Mechanism and Assessing the Performance of Cyclical Indicators in the recent Downturn
The ninth EABCN workshop took place in Cambridge from 27-28 March 2008. Hosted by the University of Cambridge, it focussed on Euro Area Data: Issues and Implications for Economic Analysis.
