Workshops
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This workshop aims to bring together researchers and policymakers to examine how macroeconomic models and data with sectoral and household heterogeneity can better capture the propagation of geoeconomic shocks across industries, countries, and income groups.
Date: 3 Dec 2026 - 4 Dec 2026
Location: Brussels, European Commission
Contact: EC-Bonn-Oxford-MacroWorkshop-2026@ec.europa.eu
Workshop Overview
Theme: Geoeconomic fragmentation, trade policies, global imbalances, and shifts in energy markets affect economies in uneven ways, with important implications for Europe. This workshop brings together researchers and policymakers to examine how macroeconomic models and data with sectoral and household heterogeneity can better capture the propagation of such shocks across industries, countries, and income groups, as well as their interaction with policy. The objective is to assess how frontier research with explicit heterogeneity can strengthen policy analysis along these dimensions.
We invite submissions of high-quality papers addressing these themes, including (but not limited to): geoeconomic fragmentation and trade, energy price shocks, economic security, global imbalances, heterogeneous-agent macro models, European integration, sectoral reallocation, and policy design in an open economy context.
Due to limited presentation slots, only a small number of papers will be selected.
Yan Bai (U of Rochester, CUHK, CEPR), Diego Perez (NYU) and Elisa Rubbo (U of Chicago) have confirmed their participation.
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Submission details
Please submit full papers or extended abstracts by 30 June 2026 via our submission platform. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 21 July 2026.
Logistics
The workshop will take place in Brussels at the European Commission over two half days (3-4 December 2026). Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for presenters from academic institutions; funding for other participants can be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Organisers
Christian Bayer (U of Bonn, CEPR), Olga Croitorov (EC, DG ECFIN), Julia Le Blanc (EC JRC, CPER), Philipp Pfeiffer (EC, DG ECFIN), Marco Ratto (EC, JRC), Federica Romei (U of Oxford, CEPR)
