The topic of the workshop will be productivity and regulation with transportation as one of the applications to be covered in this single session, four day workshop (with additional trips organised to Masada, the Dead Sea and the old city of Jerusalem) ending with a New Year’s Eve party.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Firms in International Trade - Marc Melitz (Department of Economics, Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently...

The pur­pose of this work­shop is to bring together macro­econ­o­mists to dis­cuss and pro­mote top­i­cal empir­i­cal research on mon­e­tary eco­nom­ics. Both the finan­cial cri­sis and the sov­er­eign debt cri­sis raised impor­tant issues for the effec­tive­ness of...

The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive), - methodology of business surveys - uncertainty...

This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various issues related to inflation developments, offering new perspectives on structural analysis, forecasting and economic policy design and assessment. Possible topics include: - Heterogeneity of...

Der Workshop ist ein Teil des Projekts „Postwachstumspioniere – Kommunikationsprojekt zur Erweiterung des Postwachstumsdiskurses um die Rolle mittelständischer Unternehmen“ (www.postwachstumspioniere.de), das von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) gefördert und vom IÖW gemeinsam...

For 2013 the SHE Conference theme is Heterodox economics and the crisis that won’t go away. Despite a prolonged economic crisis, which has led to increasing levels of unemployment and low rates of growth, particularly throughout Europe and in the USA, governments and mainstream economists are...

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, special emphasis will be given on areas such as: - The role of central banks and monetary policy - The role of fiscal policy - The conduct of monetary policy under zero bound conditions - The role of, and prospects for, economic growth - The...

The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers in the productivity field, both IARIW members and non-IARIW members, to present new research on important productivity topics.