The DYNARE conference will feature the work of leading scholars in dynamic macroeconomic modeling and provide an excellent opportunity to present your own research results.

Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University) and Junior Maih (IMF) will be plenary speakers.

Submissions of papers dealing with different aspects of DSGE modeling and computational methods are all welcome. Papers using other software tools than DYNARE or theoretical contributions are also encouraged.

We are planning a special session on the use of DSGE models in the policy-making process. If you are interested in sharing your experience in that field, please provide a short (one-paragraph) outline of the presentation you would like to make.

Paper submission procedure: please, fill out the paper submission form available at http://www.dynare.org/django/DynareConference2012 and upload a complete manuscript or a detailed abstract in PDF format.

Accepted papers will be published in the Dynare Working Papers series upon request by the submitter. Note that publication in the Dynare WP series does not prohibit submission to another working paper series.

Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2012. Authors of accepted papers will be informed by May 14, 2012.

Contact: conference@dynare.org

Organizers: Nicolas Cuche-Curti (Swiss National Bank), Alain Gabler (Swiss National Bank), Michel Juillard (Bank of France).

The school will provide an introduction to Dynare and to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modeling. Dynare is a free sofware for simulating and estimating DSGE models.

The courses will focus on simulation, estimation of DSGE models as well as computation of optimal policy, identification and sensitivity analysis. It will be also the occasion to introduce the new features in Dynare 4.3 (to be released before the Summer School).

This Summer school is aimed at beginners as well as at more experienced researchers. PhD students are encouraged to participate.

Application

Interested people should fill this form, before April 15, 2012. You will have to upload a CV and a recent research paper.

We will confirm acceptance by April 20, 2012.

People working in organizations member of DSGE-net (Bank of Finland, Banque de France, Capital Group, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Norges Bank, Sverige Riksbank, Swiss National Bank) should register via their network representative.

Registration fee

• Registration fee for academics (including lunches and one diner, but no accomodation): 150 €

• Registration fee for financial institutions not member of DSGE-net (including lunches and one diner, but no accomodation): 1600 €

The Registration fee is due by May 15, 2012

Workshop venue

Banque de France
31 rue Croix des Petits Champs
75001 Paris
France

Workshop organization

This is a "portable only'' workshop. Each participant is required to come with his/her portable computer with MATLAB version 7.0 or above installed. We will provide WiFi access, but participants shouldn't rely on it to access a MATLAB license server at their own institution. As an alternative to MATLAB, it is possible to use the free software GNU Octave, version 3.0 or higher (see DynareOctave).

Workshop dressing code

Casual.

Workshop animators

• Stéphane Adjemian (CEPREMAP and Université du Maine)
  
• Michel Juillard (Banque de France)
  
• Ferhat Mihoubi (CEPREMAP and Université d’Évry)
  

• Sébastien Villemot (CEPREMAP and Paris School of Economics)
  
• Marco Ratto (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
  

This workshop is  organized  with the support of Banque de France, CEPREMAP and DSGE-net.

Program