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Training course: “Monetary Policy Design in the New Keynesian Model” |
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The eighth EABCN Training School will be a four-day course on “Monetary Policy Design in the New Keynesian Model” taught by Professors Jordi Galí and Tommaso Monacelli. The objective of the course is to discuss the construction and use of New Keynesian Models in the analysis and design of monetary policy. The lectures will provide an overview of the recent literature on monetary policy design in the context of the New Keynesian framework. This training school, hosted by CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, will take place in Barcelona from 9- 12 December 2008.
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Click here for application form |
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Call for Papers: Conference on Business Cycle Developments, Financial Fragility, Housing and Commodity Prices |
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This conference, hosted by CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, will take place in Barcelona from 21-23 November 2008. See:
 Call for Papers
Deadline 18 July 2008 |
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Seventh EABCN training course on DSGE Models for Quantitative Business Cycle Analysis |
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The seventh training course took place from 3-7 March 2008, hosted by Banco de España. It focussed on Using DSGE models for Quantitative Business Cycle Analysis. The instructor was 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 |
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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. See: |
Programme and papers
A report on the workshop |
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Updated
version of the Euro area Real Time database |
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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. |
| Click here for further information and access to the data |
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Workshop: Changes
in Inflation Dynamics and Implications for Forecasting |
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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
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Report on the Workshop
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First EABCN annual grant awarded |
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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" |
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Sixth EABCN training
course on Forecast Evaluation |
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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. |
| Click here for details |
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Updated
version of the database underlying the Area Wide Model |
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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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