Lecturers: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and CEPR, Cynthia Kinnan, Tufts University

Scientific Committee: Lucia Corno (Cattolica University and LEAP), Giovanna d'Adda (University of Milan and LdA), Daniela Del Boca (University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto and CEPR), Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University, LEAP and CEPR), Mariapia Mendola (University of Milan Bicocca, IZA and LdA).

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on investment choices in developing countries. For further information and teaching material, please refer to: http://www.dagliano.unimi.it .

Participants

The school is targeted to graduate students, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers in economics and related disciplines. Students are expected to attend the school full time.

Fees and Scholarships

Participants will be charged 600? covering registration, accommodation, meals and background material. A limited number of fee waivers can be assigned to students from Developing Countries.

Applications and deadlines

The participants will be selected by the Selection Committee on the basis of the information included in the application forms. Depending on the programme, there might be a few slots for students' presentations, and priority will be given to those going on the Job Market this fall.

Applications can be downloaded from: http://dagliano.unimi.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Application_19th_ss.docx and should be submitted to [email protected].

The deadline for submission is May 25, 2020. Late applications will not be accepted. Applicants will be informed by email about the results by June 15, 2020.

Location

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that CEPR is monitoring developments very carefully and liaising with all conference organisers regarding the best course of action to take for each event. If you are applying for or scheduled to attend one of our events, please look out for direct communications regarding your event from each organiser. If you have not yet received any specific advice we recommend that you hold off making any travel arrangements until further information has been given.

The goal of the conference is to bring people interested in the topic together to present new research using these new data and methods to measure spending, discuss pros and cons and exchange best practices, etc.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Asset returns and spending
• Spending effects of unemployment events
• Welfare consequences of social insurance programs
• The impact of mortgage refinancing on spending
• Validation of new spending measures
• Consumption inequality
• Spending effects of public policies
• Insurance within the family
• Children and spending

The event provides an opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term collaborative relationships. The conference brings together around 30-40 economists for a period of two days. To foster the desired interaction we ask that participants stay for the entire duration of the conference.

Funding Economy fare travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for presenters. If you could contribute to the costs of your attendance from a research grant at your disposal, however, this would free up funds for other participants. Please indicate in your application whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs, or whether you will require funding.

How to apply For CEPR members, please submit your paper via the CEPR online system by visiting the call for papers webpage . If you do not have a personal profile to use this area of the CEPR website as yet, you can create one here. If you have any difficulty in applying, please email Mariolina Ciccone in the CEPR events team, at [email protected] with the subject header "3582- New Consumption Data". If you wish to attend please do ensure that your application and paper reach CEPR by 18:00 (GMT) April 1, 2020. We cannot accept submissions received after this date. It may not be possible to accept all applications to attend this symposium if demand exceeds the space available. We aim to notify successful applicants by the end of May 2020.

This event has been re-scheduled to 8th and 9th September 2020.

Objectives

The 19th GEP Postgraduate Conference will take place 8th-9th September 2020 at the University of Nottingham. The Conference provides a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Economics of the MNEs, Migration and Labour Market Adjustment.

The objective of the Conference is to bring together a number of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to discuss their own research ideas with established researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. The conference is open to graduate students and post-docs. Speakers will be selected based on the submitted paper (extended abstracts are acceptable but preference will be given to full papers).

Submission

Applicants must submit their CV, a letter of support from their PhD supervisor (sent separately by email; this is not required for post-docs) and the paper to be presented. If a full paper is not yet available, please include a detailed abstract, providing clearly the motivation for the work, the relationship to the literature, the method used and the expected results.

Every paper accepted will be discussed and comment on the paper. Therefore, those who are invited to present a paper are expected to deliver a complete draft before the Conference.

Applications must be sent by e-mail to:

Dr. Alessandro Ruggieri at [email protected].

Deadline for submission: 24th February 2020

Keynote speaker: Dr. Meredith Crowley (Cambridge)

Finance

There is a £220 registration fee to contribute towards costs. This includes up to two nights? accommodation and the conference dinner.

Best Paper Prize

The organising committee will award a prize of £100 to the best paper presented at the Conference.

Further information

The 3rd Bank of Italy-CEPR Labour workshop will take place in Rome on the 10-11 September 2020, with the aim of bringing together leading and emerging labour economists.

Although we invite submissions in all areas of labour economics, papers that are relevant for the understanding of labour market dynamics and their interaction with institutions are particularly welcome:

• Labour demand, wages and employment dynamics: effects of automation, matching efficiency, monopsony and market concentration
• Structural and cyclical determinants of labour supply
• The analysis of labour market institutions on efficiency and equity grounds
• Labour Market adjustment to shocks

Keynote speakers will be:
David Dorn (University of Zurich)
Lisa Kahn (University of Rochester)
Camille Landais (London School of Economics).

In order to foster the desired interaction, participants are required to stay for the entire duration of the conference. The programme will start on Thursday morning (10th) and end on Friday afternoon (11th).

Funding Limited financial support for economy class air travel will be available in accordance with the CEPR guidelines; accommodation will be provided to all speakers. How to apply If you are a CEPR member or have a profile on the CEPR portal, please submit your paper by visiting the call for papers webpage. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new profile here and then click on the registration link above. Please include the paper you wish to submit or indicate if you would like to participate without presenting a paper.
If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8809.

The application deadline is 18:00 GMT on Friday April, 17.
Decisions of acceptance or rejection by the programme committee will be announced by the end of May.

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that CEPR is monitoring developments very carefully and liaising with all conference organisers regarding the best course of action to take for each event. If you are applying for or scheduled to attend one of our events, please look out for direct communications regarding your event from each organiser. If you have not yet received any specific advice we recommend that you hold off making any travel arrangements until further information has been given.

The Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) welcomes submissions for its 2020 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium to be held at The Møller Centre in Cambridge UK, 11-12 September 2020. The symposium covers all areas of theoretical corporate finance, including theory papers that combine corporate finance theory with a related area such as banking, market micro-structure, asset pricing, and financial accounting.

The format of the 2020 symposium will be similar in nature to previous years' editions (Previous Conferences). We expect to have about 9 papers (each with a discussant) and one keynote speech.

The Keynote Speaker for the 2020 Cambridge Corporate Finance Theory Symposium is Professor Stewart Myers, Robert C. Merton Professor of Financial Economics, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management

Please submit your paper (in pdf format) by clicking the following link: Electronic Submission Form.
Please read carefully before submitting your paper: Further Information and Requirements.
The paper's cover page must include: a title, abstract, authors' names and affiliations, and the email address of the corresponding author.
The deadline for submissions is 25 February 2020. The submitted paper must not have been accepted (or conditionally accepted) at a journal at the time of submission.

The corresponding author of selected papers will be informed around 30 April 2020.

Conference Organisers:
Bart Lambrecht (Cambridge Judge Business School and CEPR) and Simon Gervais (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that CEPR is monitoring developments very carefully and liaising with all conference organisers regarding the best course of action to take for each event. If you are applying for or scheduled to attend one of our events, please look out for direct communications regarding your event from each organiser. If you have not yet received any specific advice we recommend that you hold off making any travel arrangements until further information has been given.In addition to contributed papers, the programme will feature presentations by the following invited speakers:

Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago), Alberto Cavallo (Harvard University), Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley) and Kurt Mitman (Stockholm University and CEPR) . All presentations will be in plenary sessions and each paper will be assigned a discussant.

The conference will bring together top researchers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to different monetary policy tools, including issues of communication, as well as various channels through which monetary policy may affect investment and long run economic growth. Some of the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Monetary policy communication and its channels (households, firms, financial sector)
• Expectations formation and their management
• Monetary policy effects on investment, innovation and long term growth potential
• Sources of long run monetary non-neutrality
• Role of supply factors in in monetary policy transmission mechanism
• Fiscal and monetary policy interactions
• Measurement of productivity and inflation

Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on the following registration link https://portal.cepr.org/BoF-CEPR-joint-Conf-2020. Please also indicate in your submission whether you would be interested in being a discussant as well. The organisers will select the papers based on originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance. If you are not a CEPR member, please create a CEPR profile at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above to make a submission. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8809. On local organisation, please contact Ms Liisa Mannila at [email protected].

The deadline for paper submission is 30 June 2020. Only the authors of accepted papers will be informed by 31 July 2020. Travel and local accommodation for speakers and discussants from academic institutions will be funded by the Bank of Finland according to its internal guidelines.

The workshop - which follows the first two events held in June 2016 at the Macrohistory Lab at the University of Bonn (Prof. Moritz Schularick) and in March 2018 at the Department of Economics at University of York (Dr. Matthias Morys) - aims to bring together economic historians and macroeconomists. Half the sessions will be devoted to general topics at the intersection of macroeconomics and economic history, while the other half will focus on fiscal policy, public finance and inequality as one of the key issues facing developed countries in the medium and long-term. The objective of the workshop is to strengthen further the ties which have developed in recent years to great mutual advantage between economic and financial historians, on the one hand, and macroeconomists and applied economists, on the other.

Complete manuscripts or 3-page drafts should be submitted to [email protected] no later than 28th February (in pdf-format). We will acknowledge receipt of submission and the authors of accepted papers will be notified by 16th March 2020.

Accommodation and travel expenses will be covered for programme participants.

Conveners: Prof. Carsten Burhop (University of Bonn) Dr. Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE and CEPR) Dr. Coskun Tuncer (University College London)

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that CEPR is monitoring developments very carefully and liaising with all conference organisers regarding the best course of action to take for each event. If you are applying for or scheduled to attend one of our events, please look out for direct communications regarding your event from each organiser. If you have not yet received any specific advice we recommend that you hold off making any travel arrangements until further information has been given.

The conference topics include but, by no means, are limited to:

• Firms adjustment margins in the face of large adverse shocks;
• Trading firms' behavior in an increasingly uncertain environment with rising protectionism, bilateralism, sanctions and global re-shuffling;
• The role of financial, institutional, informational, and other frictions in an uncertain environment;
• Impact of financial innovations and technologies on firms? decisions;
• The role of uncertainty and information processing capabilities by firms;
• The role of policy to aid adjustment process

Keynote Speakers
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and CEPR
Beata Javorcik, EBRD and University of Oxford and CEPR
Jennifer L'ao, Columbia University
Kalina Manova, University College London

Important dates:
Papers submission deadline: 1 May 2020 (6 p.m. GMT)
Contributors will be notified by: 5 June 2020
Registration open: 5 June 2020
Registration deadline: 22 June 2020

Funding
Accommodation expenses will be covered for participants in the programme. Participants are encouraged to fund their travel expenses from other sources as only limited funding is available. Where financial support is offered, this will be in accordance with CEPR's travel expenses guidelines.

How to apply
To respond, please visit: https://portal.cepr.org/BoL-NBP-CEBRA-CEPR-Conference-2020 and indicate whether or not you wish to present a paper or would be willing to act as a discussant. The deadline for replies is 6 p.m. (GMT), Friday 1 May 2020. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, CEPR Events Officer at [email protected] for assistance (with subject header "30031 - BoL/NBP/CEBRA/CEPR Conference 2020").

Conference website
https://www.lb.lt/en/events/conference-adjustments-in-and-to-an-uncertain-world

Scientific Committee
Philippe Bacchetta (HEC Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute and CEPR), Julian di Giovanni (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and CEBRA), Andrei A. Levchenko (University of Michigan and CEBRA), Pawel Kopiec (Narodowy Bank Polski), Krzysztof Makarski (Narodowy Bank Polski), Povilas Lastauskas (CEFER and Bank of Lithuania), Aurelija Proskute (Bank of Lithuania)

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that CEPR is monitoring developments very carefully and liaising with all conference organisers regarding the best course of action to take for each event. If you are applying for or scheduled to attend one of our events, please look out for direct communications regarding your event from each organiser. If you have not yet received any specific advice we recommend that you hold off making any travel arrangements until further information has been given.

• What are the possible implications of digital currencies for the nature of financial intermediation, monetary policy transmission and financial stability?
• How should big techs and fintech companies be regulated?
• What are the effects of regtech, suptech and govtech applications?
• What are the effects of financial innovation on business models, competition and the structure of banking?
• What are the implications of financial innovation for the business/financial cycle and the monetary transmission mechanisms?
• How does financial innovation affect the conduct and the implementation of monetary policy?

If you would like to submit a paper, please visit https://portal.cepr.org/financial-innovation-implications-competition-regulation-and-monetary-policy and indicate whether or not you wish to present a paper or act as a discussant. You will also be asked to specify your funding requirements. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8809. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create one at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above.
The submission deadline has now been extended to 30 April 2020 (18:00 GMT) . Due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 31 May 2020. There is no conference fee. Travel and accommodation expenses for academic speakers on the programme will be covered.

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a two-day course entitled "Continuous-time Methods in Macroeconomics (with applications to heterogeneous agent models)". Professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Galo Nuño 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).

Course outline

A recent literature has shown that heterogeneous agent (HA) models can be crucial for the understanding of the transmission mechanism of monetary and fiscal policies. So far, a significant barrier to the widespread use of HA models in academic and policy circles, including central banks, has been the complexity in the solution and estimation of this class of models. New analytical and numerical tools, however, have emerged in the last years that greatly simplify this task. Continuous-time methods, in particular, provide important advantages for the analysis of HA models.

This training course introduces the main tools, as well as some recent advances, in continuous-time methods in macroeconomics, with a focus on their application to HA models. This course will provide participants with the necessary background to apply these tools in practice as well as introduce some relevant applications in macro and monetary economics.

The course is divided into five sessions taught over three days.

Session 1. Dynamic programming: the deterministic case. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation and the Hamiltonian. Numerical methods and viscosity solutions. Finite difference method (FDM).

Session 2. Dynamic programming: the stochastic case. Wiener processes and Itô?s lemma. Stochastic calculus. Feynman-Kac formula and the Kolmogorov forward equation. The HJB equation. Boundary conditions. The case of Poisson processes. FDM with stochastic processes. Deep learning for high-dimensional HJB equations.

Session 3. Heterogeneous agent models. The Aiyagari-Bewley-Huggett model. Computation of the stationary equilibrium. Transitional dynamics. Heterogeneous agent new Keynesian (HANK) models.

Session 4. Heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks. The problem with aggregate shocks. Perturbation approaches. Bounded rationality: the Krusell-Smith methodology. Analysis of nonlinear aggregate dynamics using machine learning. Estimation of HA models. Application to HA models with a financial sector.

Session 5. Optimal policies with heterogeneous agents. Introduction to the calculus of variations. Constrained-efficient allocation in HA models. Ramsey policies. Optimal monetary policy with heterogeneous agents.

Administrative Information:

The course will take place at University of Mannheim, Germany (http://www.uni-mannheim.de/1/english/). Mannheim can be reached with a 30 minute train ride from Frankfurt airport.
Participants will be invited to make their own arrangements regarding their accommodation and meals. Further information about hotel options will be available to successful applicants.
Candidates who have a CEPR profile should apply by submitting their CV online at https://portal.cepr.org/EABCN-TS-Oct-2020 by 6pm (UK Time +1 GMT), Thursday 30 April 2020. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new one