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The Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN) aims to bring together researchers from Central Banks and other policy institutions with those in academia to help shape the European business cycle agenda.

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Important information for existing members

With the launch of the new EABCN website we ask the existing members to request new passwords here. If you are no longer able to access the email address from your original application, please email coordinator@eabcn.org for further instructions. 

Click here to listen to the Panel Discussion of the 11th EABCN Conference 'After the Crisis: a New Agenda for Business Cycle Research?'

11th Training School: "Tools for Nonlinear DSGE Models" Rome, 23 - 25 June 2010

The new EABCN Training School will be a three-day course on "Tools for Nonlinear DSGE Models” taught by Professor Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde. This training school, hosted by Banca d'Italia, will take place in Rome from 23 to 25 June 2010.

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  • Click here for Application Form.

Deadline: 14 March 2010

Real Time Data Base:  now publicly available on ECB SDW

We are happy to announce that now the databse, available on this website since October 2005, is now publicly downloadable from the ECB Statistical Warehouse (SDW).

A detailed description of the database is contained in the CEPR/EABCN Working Paper "An Area Wide Real Time Data Base for the Euro Area" by Domenico Giannone, Jerome Henry, Magdalena Lalik and Michele Modugno. 

For more details click here.

Conference: 'International Business Cycle - Linkages, Differences and Implications', Budapest, 28-29 June 2010

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 will be hosted by Magyar Nemzeti Bank.

Deadline 22 February 2010

Conference:  6th ECB Workshop on Forecasting Techniques: Forecasting, Real-time and Survey data.       Frankfurt, 5 - 6 March 2010

The 6th ECB workshop on forcasting techniques, co-organised by EABCN, Deutsche Bundesbank and European Central Bank, will take place in Frankfurt on 5-6 March 2010. Scientific committee: Matteo Ciccarelli (ECB), Siem Jan Koopman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Michele Lenza (ECB) and Christian Schumacher (Deutsche Bundesbank).

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Deadline 15 November 2009

10th Training School: "Learning and Expectation Formation" Hachenburg, 19 - 23 October 2009

The tenth EABCN Training School will be a five-day course on Learning and Expectation Formation” taught by Professors Klaus Adams and Albert Marcet. This training school, hosted by Fachhochschule der Deutsche Bundesbank, took  place in Hachenburg from 19 to 23 October 2009.

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Conference: After the Crisis: a New Agenda for Business Cycle Research?

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. This conference aims 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 on 21-22 September 2009.
  • Click here for the Programme and Papers
  • Click here to listen to the Panel Discussion.