The Conference includes topics regarding global recession and its implications, issues in market failures and sustainable growth, the importance of institutional development, including both macroeconomic and business orientation, with a preferable focus on comparative analysis.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Gino Gancia, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) consists of five three-hour lecture on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress.