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. Economics of International Migration - Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University) International migration is an important aspect of globalization. While migrants represent about 3 percent of the...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Firms in International Trade - Marc Melitz (Department of Economics, Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Empirical Methods: Macroeconomics - Stefan Reitz (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) Applied Econometrics of FX Markets Course syllabus 1. Basic econometric concepts 2. Introduction to...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Topics: - Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Organization of Production - The Political Economy of Trade Policy - Non-Homothetic Demand and International...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Dr. St. Reitz (Institute for the World Economy Kiel) Topics 1. Basic econometric concepts 2. Introduction to RATS programming 3. The classical linear regression model 4. Modelling...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Chris Reicher (IfW Kiel) This course is intended to be a course in practical applied econometrics. Its emphasis will be more on the practical application of econometrics and less on theory,...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. In this seminar (Professor Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and NBER) we will examine how global economic integration affects labor markets with emphasis on mechanisms related to global...

Papers focusing on general equilibrium growth and models of large trading economies are welcome. The roles of financial stability, global and regional trade patterns, foreign direct investment, and international governance are of particular interest. Contributions on other specialized topics,...

Preliminary Programme: Session 1 - Firm exports and multinational activity under credit constraints - Multinational enterprises and credit constraints Session 2 - The role of bond finance in firms' survival during the Asian crisis - Financial Crisis, Trade Credit and Export Performance: Evidence...