Norges Bank and BI 黑料专区 Business School are organizing a joint PhD course in Inference in Macro Models: Forcasting with Big Data, BVARs and SVARs. The course is registered with Department of Economics at BI. Guest lecturer will be: Professor Domenico Giannone, University of Washington and CEPR, and Professor Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University. The course will be hosted by Norges Bank over the period May 9-13, 2022.聽
1. Big data and the curse of dimensionality in macroeconomics
2. Introduction to Bayesian inference
3. Multivariate models: VARs and Bayesian VARs
4. Recent and more advanced priors
5. Shock identification and Structural VARs
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