Latest News 

The CEPR-EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee declared that the euro area expansion that had started in 2013Q2 has reached its peak in 2019Q4. The euro area entered recession in 2020Q1. Details are available in the news section of the Dating Committee section of the website. 

The CEPR-EABCN Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee met electronically on 16 April 2020 to prepare its spring statement on the state of euro area economic activity in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. Details are available in the news section of the Dating Committee section of the website. 

The CEPR and EABCN have partnered to jointly support and expand the activities of the Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee (EABCDC). The Committee will pursue its dating of the troughs and peaks of euro area business cycles but it will also launch a series of research initiatives destined to monitor and better understand aggregate economic developments in the euro area.

For more information follow this link.

Upcoming Events

Empirical Advances in Monetary Policy

Conference
26/10/2020 to 28/10/2020
Banque de France

The conference will cover a broad range of themes related to empirical aspects of monetary policy. 
Simon Gilchrist (New York University), Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics and CEPR) and Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Columbia University and CEPR) are confirmed invited speakers. 

For more information please consult the conference webpage

Deadline: Passed
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Recent Events

Continuous-time Methods in Macroeconomics (with applications to heterogeneous agent models)

Training School
30/09/2020 to 02/10/2020
Zoom Meeting

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania) and Galo Nuño (Bank of Spain) will be the instructors of this course which will introduce the main tools, as well as recent advances, in continuous-time methods in macroeconomics, with a focus on their application to Heterogeneous Agent models.

September 18, 2020
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Recent Developments in Forecasting

Training School
03/06/2020 to 05/06/2020
Bank of Italy

THE EVENT IS POSTPONED: THE NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN DUE CORSE

The course introduces participants to a variety of advanced topics and recent developments in economic forecasting. Professors Graham Elliott and Allan Timmermann will teach the course.

January 31, 2020
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Fiscal Policy: Estimating Causal Evidence and Positive Theory

Training School
04/05/2020 to 05/05/2020
Online Course

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a two-day course entitled “Fiscal Policy: Estimating Causal Evidence and Positive Theory”. Professor Morten Ravn will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government institutions outside of the network, as well as commercial organisations (fees are applicable for non-network non-academic organisations).

Note that due the global COVID-19 outbreak this course will be held online.

January 03, 2020
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FINDING THE GAP - Output Gap Measurement in the Euro Area

Conference
17/04/2020
EUI - Florence

The Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee is organizing a conference on potential output and output gap measurement. The workshop is calling for papers that can shed light on how theoretical and statistical concepts of potential output and the output gap relate and how to measure them in practice.

Programme of the conference:

December 01, 2019
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International Research Forum on Monetary Policy

Conference
26/03/2020 to 27/03/2020
European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt

 

Ensuring resilience - role and limitations of monetary policy

The 11th conference organised by the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy (IRFMP) will be held at the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt on 26 and 27 March 2020. The purpose of the IRFMP is to promote the discussion of innovative research on theoretical and empirical macroeconomic issues with relevance for monetary policy.

Note: THE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.

December 01, 2019
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Solution Methods for Discrete Time Heterogeneous Agent Models and Markov Switching Linear Models

Training School
16/09/2019 to 18/09/2019
Bank of England (London)

Wouter den Haan (London School of Economics) and Pontus Rendahl (University of Cambridge) will be the instructors of the course that will discuss computational methods for macro analysis. 

May 17, 2019
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