Topics: - The role of central bank communication in the conduct of monetary policy and in ensuring financial stability. Is the role of communication in maintaining price stability and financial stability different? What should be communicated with respect to financial stability? How should...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household asset accumulation, debt, and consumption behaviour over the life cycle. The focus of the conference is on research that makes extensive use of household...

Im ersten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts ist eine rasante Schwerpunktverschiebung der Weltwirtschaft zu den Schwellenländern zu beobachten, vor allem zugunsten der wachstums-starken Bevölkerungsgiganten China und Indien. Der OECD-Report Global Perspectives on Development 2010 diskutiert unter...

Vor zehn Jahren, im September 2000, verabschiedete die Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen die Millenniumentwicklungsziele. Bis 2015 sollte die als Meilenstein gefeierte globale Entwicklungsagenda verwirklicht sein. Vom 20.-22.09.2010 findet bei den UN in New York ein hochrangiges Treffen...

Topics: - Financial liberalisation and the finance-growth nexus; - Financial linkages and propagation channels of shocks; - Asset price co-movements, bubbles and contagion phenomena; - Financial stability implications of international financial integration and global imbalances; - Global policy...

Course Offering Summer 2010: - Dynamic Micro Models and Policy Evaluation: Theory and Empirical Applications - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Microeconometrics Lab - Policy Evaluation: Estimating Average, Marginal, and Policy-Relevant Effects of Interventions -Dynamic Panel Data Models and...

The Zvi Griliches Research Summer School in the Economics of Innovation promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of...

The BBSS offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems. Course...

The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor, micro-labor and managerial-labor contexts. In each...

Die EXPO 2010, die vom 1. Mai bis 31. Oktober 2010 in Hamburgs Partnerstadt Shanghai stattfindet, steht unter dem Motto „Better city, better life“. Die rapide Urbanisierung in China, die mit Beginn der Reform- und Öffnungspolitik eingetreten ist, hat zu einem raschen Anstieg der Zahl von...