We invite theoretical and empirical research aimed at improving our understanding of the sources of fluctuations, their propagation, and their implications for macro policy in today’s globalised environment. Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Trade linkages,...

This conference will take the form of two inter-related and sequential workshops on Pension Taxation, Population Ageing, and Globalisation, organised jointly by CEPAR and CESifo. The first workshop will be a 2-day event in Sydney on November 17-18 2014, at which first drafts of selected papers...

Program: - Turning Europe from a Pessimistic into an Optimistic Continent - The Ecologically Sustainable Union - The Social and Economic Union

This interdisciplinary workshop aims at exploring the current crisis in Europe from a conflict-theoretic perspective in order to gain a deeper understanding of political, social and economic conflicts and their dynamics within and between EU member states. We invite social scientists from...

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. - Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge) - Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Part II Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...

Topics: - EU and WTO trade liberalisation, trade defence instruments and trade controls - Regulations and policies on anti-dumping, anti-subsidies and anti-circumvention - WTO dispute settlement - EU trade defence sanctions

Topics: - EU and WTO trade liberalisation, trade defence instruments and trade controls - Regulations and policies on anti-dumping, anti-subsidies and anti-circumvention - WTO dispute settlement - EU trade defence sanctions

Researchers are invited to submit both theoretical and empirical papers. In particular, we welcome papers related to the following topics: - Liquidity, solvability and financial crises - Contagion and vulnerability of emerging economies - Monetary regimes in open-economies - Impact of...