9th ifo Conference on Macroeconomics and Survey Data

The ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys will organize a conference in Munich on “Macroeconomics and Survey Data”. The "survey" in the conference title is to be understood broadly, including all kinds of (administrative) micro data sets and all manner of consumer and business confidence surveys. The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented, are actively solicited on issues like: - methodology of business surveys - uncertainty modelling - survey data and the business cycle - transmission of cyclical fluctuations - inequality and distributional aspects - forecasting performance of survey data in business-cycle research - usage of micro-data in macroeconomics - labour market and the business cycle.