The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

This joint workshop with will focus on how market integration - both internal and global - shapes the structural transformation process in developing countries. In particular, we are interested in the role of agriculture and connections between agriculture and on economic development. Specific...

This workshop will focus on how improved data or economic measurement can help shed a light on the process of structural transformation and its link to economic growth. There is a particular interest in understanding the challenges for low-income countries. We welcome papers that introduce new...

Topics: - Methodological innovation in interpretive consumer research; - Theoretical approaches that provide new or alternative ways of understanding consumers, consumption and consumer culture (PhD students can submit the theoretical frameworks that underpin their doctoral theses); - Concepts...

Themes: - Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution; - Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments; - Productivity Impacts of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from New Zealand; - New-Keynesian Trade:...

Topics: financial stability, financial regulation and supervision, systemic risk, banking, macro-prudential policies and other related topics.

Workshop Program: - Five facts about the UIP Premium; - The People vs the Markets: A Parsimonious Model of Inflation Expectations; - Global inflation, monetary policy and spillovers on EM; - The end of privilege: a reexamination of the net foreign asset position of the United States; - Are...

Topics: all areas of macroeconomics.

Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: - Empirical behavior of gross and net flows and the labor market stocks; - Flows of workers versus jobs; - Cross-country relationships between labor flows and macroeconomic variables; - The role of labor market policies for labor market...

Topics: - Global debt markets and international dimensions of safe asset demand; - Changing structures and new players in global financial markets; - Macroeconomic consequences of dominant currencies in global financial markets; - Deviations from covered interest parity and exchange rate...