The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Carl E. Walsh, University of California) focuses on the theoretical foundations of monetary economics and their policy implications, with some attention paid to the models’...

Topics of interest include: - Technical change and the environment - Sectoral and macroeconomic effects of IT on energy demand - Productivity gains and cost savings through Green IT - Green IT innovations - Energy and resource use of IT products over their life cycle - Smart grids and transport...

Submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects related to systemic risk, spillovers, systemically important financial institutions, changes in financial regulation including the creation of a systemic risk supervisor are invited, especially papers covering the following...

All topics and methodological approaches within the broad field of finance will be considered. The Doctoral Tutorial will take place on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in Frankfurt as part of the 37th EFA Annual Meeting.

This workshop provides an opportunity for all those interested in the subject of negative nominal interest rates to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the workshop’s special topic.

The objective of the workshop is to address new developments in theoretical and empirical research in productivity and efficiency measurement from economics, agricultural economics, management science, operations research and related fields. Papers on the theory of productivity and efficiency...

Das Seminar soll aktuell informieren und den Fragen bzw. Punkten nachgehen, die den Handlungsträgern vor Ort "unter den Nägeln brennen": - Einzelhandel in den Innenstädten: Entwicklungsprozesse und die Folgen Warenhäuser und Innenstädte: Wo hinterlässt der Schrumpfungsprozess seine Spuren?...

This workshop aims to offer a discussion forum particularly for young researchers (PhD students and Postdocs) to present their current theoretical or empirical papers to a competent audience. Submissions in all areas of monetary economics, financial economics, and banking are invited.

Specific questions are, among others: • Measuring interconnectedness of financial institutions at the national and in-ternational level. • Consequences of financial integration for financial stability and regulation. • Bank regulation and its impact on bank behaviour, competition and...

After eight years of service as Vice-President of the European Central Bank, the mandate of Lucas Papademos will end on 31 May 2010. In order to honour his career both as a distinguished academic and as an eminent central banker, the ECB will host a two-day colloquium entitled “The great...