Das Thema der erstmalig stattfindenden Summer School lautet: “Homo oeconomicus in decline? The Economic Value of Religion.” In dreifacher Weise soll das Thema ausgeleuchtet werden. Einmal fragen wir nach neuen alternativen Modellen zum überkommenen „rational choice“-Paradigma. Dann...

The general purpose of this Summer School is to offer a space for training and debate on the recent theory and methodology perspectives about the links between development cooperation, peace and conflict.

Courses: - Advanced Economics of Innovation - Advanced Theory of Institutions - Antitrust Law and Economics - Behavioral Labor Economics - Cooperative Game Theorys - Econometric Analysis of Experimental Data - Experiments and Models of Collective Behavior - Intra and Intergroup Decision Making -...

The CFS Summer School 2008: - offers a scenic and stimulating environment for Ph.D. students to learn about the latest developments in their field from renowned international faculty, - helps postgraduate researchers in the positioning of their work through the exchange of research ideas and...

Topics: 1) Short revision of the basics of asset allocation and asset pricing 2) Asset prices and allocations in the presence of - Limited participation - Short-sale constraints - Liquidity risk - Heterogeneous beliefs - Heterogeneous risk aversion - Recursive preferences - Prospect theory...

Issues of monetary economics, the theory of growth and distribution, and the relation of Post-Keynesian Economics to other heterodox traditions, but also to the now prevalent New Keynesian approach, will be covered as well as applications of Keynesian theory to issues of unemployment, monetary...

The subject of this year’s summer school is Asymmetric Information and Learning in Financial Markets: Theory and Time Series Econometrics.

The importance of empirical methods applied to micro (household or firm) data, and the use of experimental methods to obtain new insights into micro behavior, has been emphasized most prominently by the Nobel Prizes in Economics to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000, and to Vernon Smith...

Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde has annually organized a Summer School on frontier topics between philosophy, economics and other social sciences, bringing together scholars from all these fields to explore them. The aim of this year Summer School is to introduce participants to the vast...

The following courses will be offered: - Banking Theory - Empirical Banking - Imperfect Competition - Banking Regulation - Empirical Banking - Methodological Aspects