The workshop provides a platform to discuss applied economic research. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions from all fields of macroeconomics and international economics with an emphasis on a high relevance for economic policy. The special topic of the workshop will be capital...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics: - big data, unstructured data, high frequency data - forecasting inflation, exchange rates; finance and forecasting - forecasting in the presence of structural breaks - forecasting with dynamic...

Der Workshop widmet sich in zwei Panels den Fragen zur Zukunft des internationalen Handels und der europäischen Integration.

Topics: - Economic effects of migration - Barriers to the flow of goods and labor - Production and labor in the informal economy - International institutions and agreements, e.g., Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - European economies and globalization - Economic warfare and...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and business cycles, international...

Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva) The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics...

Topics: - Formal and informal institutions and firms in the open economy - Natural resources and the quality of institutions - Interactions between domestic product and factor markets, institutions and comparative advantage - The role of institutions in transition - Institutional determinants of...

Exchange-Rate Economics - Lucio Sarno (City University, London) This five-day course provides an overview of selected topics in exchange rate economics. The topics covered include: (i) the interest rate parity conditions that underlie exchange rate economics, with a focus on understanding the...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Roberto Rigobon (MIT) August 5-9, 2013 - Basic tools of open macroeconomics: Intertemporal approach to the current account - International Micro...

Programm: - Einführung in das Thema / Blick auf die aktuelle Krise - Von der Subprimekrise zur Staatsschuldenkrise: Abbildungsmöglichkeiten im Kontensystem der VGR - Von der Subprimekrise zur Staatsschuldenkrise: Realwirtschaft, Finanzwirtschaft und Spekulation -...