Recent Advances in Forecasting Energy Prices: Data, Models, and Risk Analysis
IIF Distinguished Lecture Series continues! Join us as we welcome Christiane Baumeister, from University of Notre Dame, to kick off the third year of this initiative. For more details, visit read Christiane’s lecture overview.
Lecture Topic: Recent Advances in Forecasting Energy Prices: Data, Models, and Risk Analysis
Instructor: Christiane Baumeister, Lambert Family Professor Of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Dates: The lectures will take place on four separate dates, March 17, March 31, April 14 and April 28, 2026 at 9am EDT (US East Coast)
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Hosted by: Deutsche Bundesbank’s Research Centre and the International Institute of Forecasters
The conference brings together leading researchers in real-time economic analysis, and encompasses nowcasting, high-frequency data, surveys, macro-econometrics, data revisions, and macroeconomic policy. The deadline for paper submissions was May 11, 2025. For details, please find the Call for Papers here.
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Meeting number (access code): 2787 944 5086
Meeting password: Eltville2025! (or 35884553 when dialing in from a video system)
Democratising Forecasting
This is a series of in-person workshops on forecasting using R in developing countries. The aim of the project is to ‘train the trainers’ in the form of university students, academics and professionals on the principles of forecasting using R software to support decision making. The ultimate goal of this project is to train 400 individuals, over 5 years in 20 developing countries in the world.
We have also developed an online training delivered once a year in October for participants across Sub-Saharan Africa: see details in AFRICAST (https://workshop.f4sg.org/africast/).
Since 2018, across both in-person and the online program, 471 participants across 21 countries have benefited from our workshops.
The workshops are given by IIF members led by Prof. Bahman Rostami-Tabar, at Cardiff Business School. To organise a workshop in your country, contact rostami-tabarb@cardiff.ac.uk
