Conferences & Workshops
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 on 28-29 June 2010.
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Deadline 22 February 2010.
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. 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, 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.
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.
The seventh EABCN workshop took place in Zurich on 29-30 August, 2006, hosted by the Swiss National Bank. The workshop focused on "Estimation and Empirical Validation of Structural Models for Business Cycle Analysis". See:
The sixth EABCN workshop on comparative analysis of productivity changes over the business cycle in the Euro-area and in US took place in Helsinki at the Bank of Finland on 28-29 November 2005.
The fifth EABCN workshop took place on 13-14 June 2005. Hosted in Brussels by the National Bank of Belgium, this workshop focused on the need for a Real Time Database for the Euro-Area
