9th Workshop of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN):
Euro Area Data: Issues and Implications for Economic Analysis

27 - 28 March 2008, Cambridge
Hosted by the University of Cambridge

Organisers:
Mardi Dungey (University of Cambridge), Kirstin Hubrich (European Central Bank) and Denise Osborn (University of Manchester)

Empirical analysis of the euro area economy depends crucially on the historical database used to represent the region. The 9th EABCN workshop aims to gather papers that examine methodological issues, such as aggregation across euro area countries and the use of real-time data, and evaluate the impact of data choices on economic analysis.

Papers that address the following issues are particularly welcome:

1. The sensitivity of model estimation and simulations to historical aggregation across current euro area member countries versus other data representations of the euro area prior to January 1999
2. The use of real-time data for modelling the euro area and euro area countries. For new real time data sets collected within an EABCN project in cooperation with the European Central Bank and the respective National Central Banks, see the EABCN webpage (www.eabcn.org)
3. The sensitivity of current policy recommendations to the choice of historical dataset
4. Methodologies for construction of real and financial euro area series as new member countries join the euro area

Confirmed participants include Lucrezia Reichlin, Helmut Lütkepohl and Gabriel Perez-Quiros.

If you would like to submit a paper, please send this as an email attachment to iput@cepr.org by 24.00GMT on 14 December 2007 and include the following information in the text of the email:

• name of submitter
• co-authors
• affiliations of submitter and co-authors
• title of the paper
• abstract of the paper

Funding will be available for travel expenses for accepted academic participants according to the standard CEPR travel guidelines ( www.cepr.org/meets/WKCN/misc/trp.pdf). Costs will not be covered for central bank participants.

Authors of successful submissions will be notified in mid-January 2008.

If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Ingrid Put
Meetings Manager

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