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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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The seventh training course took place in Madrid from 3-7 March 2008. Hosted by the Banco de España, it focussed on Using DSGE models for Quantitative Business Cycle Analysis. The instructor was Professor Lawrence Christiano, who is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where he holds the Alfred W. Chase Chair in Business Institutions.
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The sixth training
course took place from 10-14
September 2007, hosted by Banco de Portugal.
It focused 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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The fifth training course
took place in Vienna from 12th-16th February
2007, hosted by Oesterreichische Nationalbank.
It focused on Topics in Econometric Models for Macroeconomics
and Finance. The instructor is Carlo A. Favero.
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details including programme, local information and
lecture notes |
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The fourth training
course took place from 5-9 June
2006. Focusing on 'Bayesian Methods for DSGE
Models and VARs', the course was hosted by the Bundesbank,
Eltville, Germany. Professor Frank Schorfheide,
from University of Pennsylvania, instructed the course.
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including course
material |
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The third
training course took place from 7-11
November 2005. Hosted by the Banca d'Italia,
it focused on Topics in Applied Time Series and Forecasting.
The instructor was Mark Watson, Professor
of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research.
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The second training course
was held on 20-24 September 2004. Hosted
by the National Bank of Belgium, it focused on Dynamic
Factor Models for large panels of time series. Professor
Lucrezia Reichlin gave the course which covered
dynamic factor models.
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The first training course
was held in Milan in January 2004. Hosted
by Bocconi University, it focused on Bayesian methodologies
for business cycle analysis. The course was taught
by Professor Fabio Canova (Universitàt
Pompeu Fabra). Each of the five days consisted of three
hours of lectures and five hours of practical computer
based laboratory sessions.
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