11th ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques: Avenues for the next 20 years

Date: 
Monday, 8 June 2020 to Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Venue: 
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Institution: 
European Central Bank

Call for papers: 11th ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques — Avenues for the next 20 years

The European Central Bank will be holding its 11th Conference on Forecasting Techniques in Frankfurt am Main on 8 and 9 June 2020.

NOTE: THE EVENT IS POSTPONED. THE NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN DUE COURSE.

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. For more than a decade the world economy has operated under high economic, financial and – more recently – also political risks. Macroeconomic forecasting in such an environment has to be able to cope with high uncertainty, nonlinearities and structural breaks.

This conference will bring together experts from different fields to exchange new ideas on macroeconomic and financial forecasting when uncertainty is high. It will look for ways to put new insights from econometric and statistical theory into practice, especially in the current macroeconomic environment. We particularly encourage submissions on the following topics: uncertainty and the economic cycle; robust forecasting in the presence of nonlinearities and structural breaks; modelling and forecasting tail events; forecasting with dynamic panels and with large VARs; machine learning and scalable forecasting methods; forecasting inflation, real activity, and exchange rates; big and/or unstructured data and dimension reduction techniques. The scope of the conference is not limited to these topics and submissions from all areas of forecasting are welcome.

Joshua Chan (Purdue University), Raffaella Giacomini (University College London), Christopher Sims (Princeton University) and Matt Taddy (Amazon) have confirmed their participation as keynote speakers. Lucrezia Reichlin (London Business School) will moderate a panel discussion entitled “20 years of macroeconomic forecasting at the ECB: reflections and the way ahead”.

Manuscripts should be submitted as a PDF to [email protected] by 19 February 2020. Please indicate in your submission whether you are willing to discuss a paper. The authors of accepted papers will be notified by 7 April 2020. Notifications will be sent to the authors of accepted papers only.

Call for papers: 
Deadline: 
February 19, 2020