37th CIRET Conference
hosted by
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) &
WU Vienna
September 11th – 14th, 2024
Vienna, Austria
Economic Tendency Surveys and Economic Policy Making
Topic
Price and Inflation: Methods and Forecasting
Special topic
The overall aim of CIRET conferences is to encourage and improve communication, exchange and cooperation between academics and practitioners who conduct economic surveys, analyse survey data and develop or make use of cyclical indicators. CIRET, the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys, is also a forum for discussion and application of new methodological developments and their results.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Ana Galvão
(Bloomberg Economics and University of Warwick)
Prof. Massimiliano Marcellino
(Bocconi University)
Prof. Peter Klimek
(Supply Chain Intelligence Institute Austria; Complexity Science Hub)
Conference Topics
Short-term Economic Survey and Indicators
Business Tendency Surveys (including Investment Surveys)
Consumer Tendency Surveys
Composite and Leading Indicators
Ad hoc Surveys
New Methods
Real-time Monitoring and Forecasting
Surveys Amongst Experts
Survey Related to Structural Aspects of the Economy
Innovative Activity
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Organisational Change
Labour Market Analysis
Special Topic: Price and Inflation Expectations
Price and Inflation Expectations: Methods and Forecasting
The recent surge of prices due to the COVID pandemic and energy price shocks put inflation and inflation expectations at the center of economic policy discussions. At the same time, inflation expectations are also invoked to gauge the credibility of central bank’s monetary policies. Economic tendency surveys and indicators derived from market data are instruments to provide information on price dynamics and inflation expectations.
Can these instruments help to forecast inflation? What are the appropriate economic approaches? What other types of data are helpful? Do these data help to understand inflation dynamics in real time? What kind of biases are relevant when interpreting inflation expectation data?
These are the challenging questions of the special topic at the 37th CIRET conference.
Isaac Kerstenetzky Award
sponsored by FGV, for the best papers presented at the CIRET Conference in distinct categories
The 37th CIRET Conference will be preceded by
the joint United Nations Statistics Division, WIFO, WU, Statistics Austria and KOF Swiss Economic Institute Workshop on
Price- and Inflation Statistics in the National Accounts (tbc)
Tuesday, September 10, 2024, Vienna, Austria
Contact
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email at ciret2024@wifo.ac.at.