Conference: Advances in Business Cycle Research - Directions since the Crises

Date: 
Monday, 13 December 2010 to Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Venue: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
The Great Recession, which began in the US in December 2007, has thrown up a huge variety of new research threads, reopening old debates and challenging widely held preconceptions. Policy makers and academics have not been slow to respond to these challenges. Three years after the crisis began the aim of this conference is to perform an audit of what has been learnt and what needs to be studied. The conference offered a broad perspective covering both theory and econometric practice and created an event for policymakers to pose what they considered to be the as yet most important unanswered questions.