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Brazilian Finance Meeting
The Brazilian Finance Society (SBFin), founded on July 23, 2001, during the First Brazilian Finance Meeting, is an association of those interested in the study of finance, including professors, students, and finance professionals, which proposes to promote the study of finance in Brazil, as well as develop and disseminate the knowledge of theories and techniques for improving the quality of teaching, research, and their practical application in management, investment, and financing activities.
Brazilian Meeting of Econometrics
The Brazilian Society of Econometrics (SBE) is a non-profit civil entity whose members include professors, researchers, graduate students and other professionals engaged in the analysis and application of quantitative methods in economics and finance. SBE has 1,100 members and it is the major association of economists in Brazil. Among SBE members there are the most renowned and influential economists of Brazil.
Since its establishment in 1979, SBE has made every endeavor to further develop the economic science in Brazil. In addition to the, SBE also organizes regional meetings, offers training courses to graduate students and economics professors, and is responsible for the publication of the Brazilian Review of Econometrics
Sao Paulo School of Economics Conference Serie
This conference is the first of the "Sao Paulo School of Economics Conference Series". This series will occur annually and the papers and proceedings of the meeting will be published as an academic periodical.
The main objectives of the conferences are (a) to organize the most important ideas of public policy subjects applied to Brazilian economy, and (b) to enhance the understanding of our economy by academic economists.
Each conference will be organized on a specific subject with papers presented by leading brazilian scholars with expertise in the area. Participants are bonded by their interest in the issues discussed and by their belief that analysis, evidence, and informed discussion have lasting effects on the public and its institutions.
The first meeting will be on economic growth. In the first conference eight papers will be presented and commented and there will be a special lecture by one professor with high academic reputation in this area.
Forecasting in Rio
Forecasting has applications in several areas of Econometrics, although macroeconomic forecasting has occupied a relative large space in the literature historically. Recently, however, financial applications have gained momentum, with topics such as forecasting volatility, quantiles, distributions, etc. Panel-data techniques also show promise, since the added cross-sectional dimension allows the pooling of information, the pooling of forecasts, and pooling from different data frequencies, which is particularly important in financial applications.
General Equilibrium Workshop in Rio
The general equilibrium workshop is a biennial conference. It is similar in spirit to the European workshops in general equilibrium which started in Geneva in 1991.