Activities - Conferences

      The conference was sponsored jointly with the CEPR. The program was prepared by Jordi Galí and Andrew Rose (University of California, Berkeley). Financial support was obtained from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura and from the Generalitat de Catalunya.

      The main objective of the conference was to revisit the new developments in the international macroeconomic literature both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. The conference was organized in three sessions, and covered recent research on topics like currency unions, monetary policy in the open economy, Euro area modeling, financial crises, and others of significant policy relevance and current interest.