Dear Dynare friends,

The Course on Identification and Sensitivity Analysis for DSGE models 2013 will take place from September 16 to September 18, 2013 in Ispra, Italy.

INFO http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events.php?idx=92

GOALS OF THE COURSE Scope of the course is to give a general introduction to methods of identification and global sensitivity analysis, their DYNARE implementation (identification toolbox and global sensitivity analysis toolbox) and their application to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) macroeconomic models.

Michel Juillard (Banque de France) and Sebastien Villemot (CEPREMAP) will be the guest speakers.

This course is aimed at beginners as well as at more experienced researchers. PhD students are encouraged to participate.

REGISTRATION Interested people should apply online. Follow the info at: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events.php?idx=92

We strongly encourage to register *before July 31, 2013*.

REGISTRATION FEE No fee is due

WORKSHOP VENUE Joint Research Centre - European Commission 21027 Ispra (VA) Italy http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION This is a "portable only" workshop. Each participant is required to come with his/her portable computer with MATLAB version 7.0 or above installed. We will provide WiFi access, but participants shouldn't rely on it to access a MATLAB license server at their own institution. As an alternative to MATLAB, it is possible to use GNU Octave (free software, compatible with MATLAB syntax; seehttp://www.dynare.org/download/octave for details on GNU Octave installation).

WORKSHOP ANIMATORS

- Marco Ratto (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) - Christophe Planas (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) - Alessandro Rossi (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) - Michel Juillard (Banque de France) - Sébastien Villemot (CEPREMAP)