New Year’s Post 2023

From the Study Center in Gerzensee we wish you a prosperous 2023! In our new year’s post, we present our interview with a featured guest of 2022. We also preview our 2023 academic program. For a regular update on ongoing activities at the Study Center: Follow us on LinkedIn.
 

Featured guest of 2022: Prof. James H. Stock (Harvard University) 

In June 2022, we welcomed Prof. James Stock to the Study Center to give an advanced course on “The Economics and Econometrics of Climate Change Policy ”. During his stay, Prof. Stock found time to talk to us about his experience as an advisor on climate policy, and his visit to the Study Center.

Listen to the podcast here.
Interview: June 2022, Moderator: Fabio Canteg.

Central Bankers Courses in 2023  

In 2023, we again offer a program of courses for central bank staff from all over the world. We look forward to welcoming in total 173 participants from 73 central banks to our intermediate courses on Monetary Policy, Banking Regulation, Macroeconomic Forecasting, Instruments of Financial Markets, as well as to our Topics courses in Empirical Finance and Monetary Economics. 

 

Graduate Training in 2023 

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Anna Mikusheva (MIT) and Prof. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Columbia University) will join the faculty of our Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students during the coming year. We wave goodbye to Prof. Mark Watson (Princeton) and Prof. Sérgio Rebelo (Northwestern) and thank them for their long-standing and incommensurable contribution to our core graduate training program. They will be missed. 

We are also excited to announce our 2023 Program of Advanced Courses in Economics with courses on Policy Evaluation, Inequality, International Macro, FinTech, Computation of Heterogenous Agent Models and Probabilistic Modeling of Networks. 

Our 2023 Program of Law and Economics Courses is currently being finalized and will be announced within the next weeks.  
 

Conferences in 2023  

We are excited to host for the first time the Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation.  

Also for the first time, we will host the Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance, co-organized with the Bank of Canada and the FED Board of Governors.  

We look forward to our biannual autumn Conference with the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, co-organized with the Fed St. Louis and the Swiss National Bank.