The Workshop on Quantitative Tools for Macroeconomic Policy Analysis of the Penn Institute for Economic Research is a unique, week-long program that provides essential training on cutting edge quantitative tools for analyzing macroeconomic policy from the world’s leading experts at the University of Pennsylvania. The PIER Tools Workshop consists of three six-hour mini-courses, nine hours of practical training sessions (labs), two distinguished guest lectures, the Penn Faculty Lecture, and a half-day, practice-oriented mini-workshop. The courses cover nonlinear models of credit booms, financial crises and macroprudential policy, financial interconnectedness and macro monitoring and forecasting, and recent advances in DSGE model estimation. There are also two distinguished guest lectures and the Penn Faculty Distinguished Lecture in addition to a mini workshop on macroprudential policy.