Forthcoming Events
2012
2nd Workshop on Structural Approaches to Industry Dynamics, Trade and Productivity
12 – 13 April 2012
EIEF, Rome
On 12–13 April 2012 EIEF will host the second edition of the “Workshop on Structural Approaches to Industry Dynamics, Trade and Productivity” co-funded with COST. The aim is to bring together researchers in industry dynamics and productivity, with a particular emphasis on empirical research. For details, please see the preliminary programme.
Conference on “Economics of Interactions and Culture”
27 – 28 April 2012
EIEF, Rome
On 27–28 April 2012 EIEF will host a Conference on “Economics of Interactions and Culture”, co-organized with ERC, University of Rome “La Sapienza” and CEPR. The aim of the Conference is to present and discuss recent research on cultural traits, beliefs and social norms and how they affect the functioning of institutions and legal systems. The event is the follow up of two Conferences on similar topics held in December 2008 and January 2010. For details, please see the Call for Papers.
MOOD 2012
12th Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics
June 26-28, 2012
EIEF, Rome
This annual workshop, which started in 2001 as the Villa Mondragone Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics, is designed to stimulate the interaction between senior economists and doctoral students working on both theoretical and empirical economic issues, and well ahead in their dissertation. The workshop is the result of the cooperation between four Italian research institutions—Bank of Italy, Collegio Carlo Alberto, EIEF, LUISS, Journal of Applied Econometrics and LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations—that are present on the international academic job market for economists. Additional financial support is provided by the Journal of Applied Econometrics and by LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. For details, please see the Call for Papers.
Conference on “New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series”
10-11 September 2012
EIEF, Rome
On 10-11 September 2012 EIEF will host a Conference on “New Developments in Econometrics and Time Series” organized by the Collaborative Research Center 823 “Statistical modelling of nonlinear dynamic processes” and ECARES.
The aim of this conference is to bring together leaders in econometrics and time series to share, talk, exchange ideas, and provide a platform for future collaborations. Some of the topics that are covered by the meeting are: robust methods, quantile, volatility processes, factor models, dependence, estimation of covariance matrices.
The program is not yet defined but the preliminary list of presenters is the following:
Manfred Deistler (Vienna University of Technology), Søren Johansen (University of Copenhagen), Ta-Hsin Li (Yorktown, USA), Roger Koenker (University of Illinois), Masanobu Taniguchi (Waseda University), Markus Reiss (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Stanislav Volgushev (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum), Bas Werker (Tilburg University), Michael Wolf (University of Zurich), Jianqing Fan (Princeton University), Helmut Luetkepohl (European University Institute, Florence), Brian Anderson (Australian National University), Dag Bjarne Tjøstheim (University of Bergen).