This event will be held at the National Bank of Belgium, and this year we have the pleasure of having Domenico Giannone present. The topic of the school is Monitoring and Forecasting Macroeconomic and Financial Risk and the school will be followed by a workshop with the participation of Nina Boyarchenko (New York Fed), Gianluca Bontempi (ULB), Christian Brownlees (UPF and BSE), Christophe Croux (KULeuven), Christine De Mol (ULB), Catherine Doz (Paris School of Economics), Fernando Duarte (Brown University), Domenico Giannone (University of Washington), Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde), Michele Lenza (European Central Bank), Francesca Loria (Federal Reserve Board), Haroon Mumtaz (Queen Mary, University of London), Emanuel Moench (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Francesca Monti (UCLouvain), Ivan Petrella (Warwick Business School), Jean-Paul Renne (HEC Lausanne), Andrej Sokol (Bloomberg LP), and Dick Van Dijk (Erasmus University Rotterdam).