MacroFor
An IIF section focusing on macroeconomic forecasting (GDP forecasting, inflation forecasting, macroeconomic nowcasting with large data sets, business cycles analysis, survey expectations, density forecasting, DSGE models, etc.). Follow us on Twitter @MacroFor.
Officers
Chair: Malte Knueppel, Deutsche Bundesbank
Vice Chair: Pilar Poncela, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Secretary: Gergely Ganics, Banco de España
Christiane Baumeister, University Notre Dame
Laurent Ferrara, SKEMA Business School
Objectives
- Create a network of macroeconomic forecasters
- Organize macroeconomics forecasting sessions during the ISFs and propose specific sessions
- Organize workshops on macroeconomic forecasting
- Propose special issues/sections for IJF on macro topics
- Contribute to diffuse information on workshops, conferences, and calls for papers dealing with macroeconomic forecasting, and act as a contact point with other organizations.
- Attract young researchers in macro forecasting to the IIF
- Serve as a bridge between macro forecasters from institutions (international organizations, public bodies, private) and academics
- Propose names for possible nominations to the IIF Board
Next Seminar
June 6, 3:30pm CEST: Dick van Dijk, Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, will be speaking on Slow Expectation-Maximization Convergence in Low-Noise Dynamic Factor Models
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* all webinars take place 3:30-4:30pm CEST (Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome)
Past presentations
Workshops
Date | Organizer | Event |
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February 2022 | Malte Knüppel, Deutsche Bundesbank | Revisiting and Improving Prediction Tools for Central Banks |
December 2021 | New Directions for Inflation Forecasting | |
December 2021 | Forecasting in a changing environment | |
July 2020 | MacroFor | Economic Forecasting in Times of Covid-19 |