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The ninth edition of Barcelona Macroeconomics Summer School, organised by CREI, will offer courses on the latest advances in macroeconomics

21.03.2007

 

March 21st 2007

The ninth edition of CREI’s Barcelona Macroeconomics Summer School (BMSS 2007) will be held on the main campus of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona during the period June 18-29, 2007. BMSS 2007 will offer a variety of courses taught by recognised experts in their fields such as Fabio Canova, Antonio Ciccone, Jordi Galí, Xavier Sala-i-Martín, Jaume Ventura and Hans-Joachim Voth. The courses will cover recent developments in different areas of macroeconomics, including growth, international finance, monetary and fiscal policy, macroeconometrics and economic geography.

The courses are aimed at graduate students specializing in macroeconomics, as well as faculty members or researchers willing to brush up their knowledge of the field and expose themselves to the latest advances in academic research. During the courses, the BMSS faculty will be available to participants for discussion of research ideas and projects. Since its beginnings, BMSS has been very popular with foreign researchers. Last year’s edition, for example, attracted some 130 economists and only 15% of these were affiliated to Spanish institutions, with the rest working for European Union or international institutions.

Jordi Galí, director of and researcher at CREI, considers that “BMSS is a pioneering event and unique in this country both in regard of a number of editions held and also the advance level of the courses imparted”. Galí add “the courses are aimed at experts in macroeconomics such as people who work at universities, central banks, government agencies, and year after year, we are surprised by the great number of applications received”. At the 2006 edition, 47 researchers were from universities, 49 from central banks, 15 from private companies, 13 from government agencies and 5 from research centres.

For further information: http://www.crei.cat/activities/bmss/2007/bmss_2007.htm

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