The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University) Lectures: 1) The New Keynesian model. 2) Introducing financial frictions into the New Keynesian DSGE Model. 3) Implications of the zero lower...

The measurement of IT-based services productivity is at the heart of the ProdIT research project, which is patronized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this workshop is to share know-how and experiences on the measurement of service productivity....

Program: Session 1: Housing Bubbles and Market Frenzies Session 2: Forecasting Housing Markets Session 3: Regional Developments in Housing Markets Session 4: Housing Markets and Financial Economics Session 5: Housing Markets and the Macroeconomy

How do households and professional forecasters build expectations about future economic variables, especially inflation? What are adequate ways of modeling expectation formation and how can survey data be used to assess those models? What role do the news media play in processing information to...

We invite abstracts for papers that discuss market-based policy instruments in environmental governance and, more specifically, in the provision of ecosystem services. Papers should pay special attention to (A) the discourse on and politics of market-based instruments (MBIs) for ecosystem...