This course provides a state of the art overview of complex economic systems with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The leading paradigm in macroeconomics assumes that economic agents (households, firms, investors) are perfectly rational in making their decisions. Experimental and...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts with an introduction to models of firm dynamics and innovation. Next, attention is paid to estimation of...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts with an introduction to models of firm dynamics. Next, attention is paid to estimation of productivity, including...

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

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 submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - Global imbalances after the crisis - High debt of firms, governments and households and economic dynamics - Macroeconomic imbalances and public debt in the euro area - Macroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - Global imbalances after the crisis - High debt of firms, governments and households and economic dynamics - Macroeconomic imbalances and public debt in the euro area - Macroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal...

The Summer School “Human Capital and Economic Growth” of the Faculty of Economics Rimini and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis willcombine a thorough review of the literature (both theoretical and empirical) along with state-of-the-art econometric analysis of the issues arising inthe...

The 2010 conference will focus on lessons learned from the Canadian economic performance and management over the last fifteen years and its response to the recent global crisis. Thus, drawing from the Canadian experience of sustained long-run growth and an effective response to a large shock,...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: • Global imbalances and the current crisis • Financial crisis, real crisis and the risks of depression and deflation • Paradigm shift in macroeconomics – the return of Keynesianism? • Economic policy reactions and the...