The global financial stability will be in the focus of the Working Lunch with Tobias Adrian on May 29. Adrian is Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

On June 7 and 8, the Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison Network (MMCN) will organize its 2nd research conference. This year, representatives of central banks and researchers will come together at Stanford University to explain the great recession and its aftermath with structural models.

The Macroeconomic Model Data Base (MMB) now offers researchers 114 models and new technical features. On the open platform developed by Volker Wieland and his team, researchers can share formulas and codes of their models and also reproduce the calculations of other researchers.

IMFS graduate Tilman Bletzinger explains in an interview how his work at the IMFS allows him to prepare policy briefings at the ECB not only with a technical analysis but also with a broader understanding.