What has your Big Data-based research brought to light? What new methods for exploiting this new resource for research have you used or developed? Where do you see new fields of research being made possible by adding Big Data to the toolbox? CESifo and the ifo Institute are inviting submissions...

Das Ziel des Workshops besteht darin, Forschenden der Ökonomie die Möglichkeit zu geben, sich zu neuen Datentypen und Entwicklungen der Datennutzung auszutauschen. Das umfasst folgende Aspekte: - Big-Data-Analysen: Nutzung unstrukturierter Daten – aus: Internet (Stichwort: Webscraping),...

Data has always been a key tool in economics research. But Big Data goes beyond being a mere tool: it is opening new fields of research and also helping to gain fresh insights that were previously out of reach. This workshop will review how Big Data is being used by young scholars, what new...

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Economic Growth - David Weil (Brown University) This course will consist of five lectures, each lasting three hours. Day 1: Facts, Framework, and Measurement Day 2: Cross-country regressions...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - The theory of employment and unemployment - Possibilities and limitations of monetary and fiscal policy - Labour market institutions, active labour market policies, and decent jobs - Industrial policy, productivity and...

The conference will address cross-sectoral issues and aspects related to sustainable management of sectors like agriculture, industry, energy and transport; as well as the adoption of sustainable life styles reducing individual ecological footprints, equity concerns, and strategies for poverty...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich) This course consists of ve times three-hour lectures covering research topics in the area of innovation, fi nancial development and...