18 – 22 May
2026
Advanced Studies Program
Empirical Methods for Business-Cycle Analysis – Christan Wolf (MIT)
Course Description:
This course aims to bring participants to the research frontier on how to estimate the causal effects of macroeconomic shocks, with a particular focus on monetary and fiscal policy. We will discuss how to: plausibly identify those shocks; best estimate their causal effects in finite samples; and use those estimated shock causal effects for macroeconomic policy evaluation. The analysis throughout pushes the boundaries on how much we can say without committing to explicit structural macro models.
Christian Wolf (MIT)
Christian Wolf is an Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics.
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