Dear Dynare friends,

The Dynare Summer School 2016 will take place from June 6 to June 10, 2016 in Le Mans, France.

# Goals of the Summer School

The school will provide an introduction to Dynare and to Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modelling.

The courses will focus on simulation and estimation of DSGE models with Dynare. It will be also the occasion to introduce the new features in Dynare.

Participants will be given the opportunity to present a research paper/work. At the end of each day a one hour slot will be reserved for that purpose.

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

# Application

Interested people should apply by sending an email to summerschool@dynare.org. Application should be done *no later than April 22, 2016*. You will have to attach a CV and a recent research paper. Those willing to present a research paper/work should manifest their intention in the email. We will confirm acceptance by April 25, 2016.

People working in organizations member of DSGE-net (Bank of Finland, Banque de France, Capital Group, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Norges Bank, Sverige Riksbank, Swiss National Bank) should register via their network representative.

# Registration Fee

Registration fee (including breakfasts, lunches, coffe breaks, one diner, *and* accomodation): 450 €. Note that this year we had to prebook the hotel rooms because none will be available when we will confirm acceptance to the Summer school (the city hosts the 24 heures du Mans in June).

# Workshop Animators

- Stéphane Adjemian (Université du Maine) - Michel Juillard (Banque de France) - Frédéric Karamé (Université du Maine) - Johannes Pfeifer (University of Mannheim)

This workshop is organized with the support of Université du Maine, CEPREMAP and DSGE-net.

# Preliminary Program

The preliminary program will be available soon on Dynare's website.

# Workshop Venue

Université du Maine Avenue Olivier Messiaen 72000 Le Mans France

# Workshop Organization

This is a “laptop only” workshop. Each participant is required to come with his/her laptop computer with MATLAB version 7.5 (R2007b) 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; see http://www.dynare.org/download/octave for details on GNU Octave installation).

On behalf of the Dynare Team, Stéphane.