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 conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive), - methodology of business surveys - uncertainty...

This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various issues related to inflation developments, offering new perspectives on structural analysis, forecasting and economic policy design and assessment. Possible topics include: - Heterogeneity of...

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

Die Konferenz soll die folgenden Fragen aufgreifen: - Welche Fakten sprechen dafür, dass die von der Krise am stärksten betroffenen Staaten in Europa dabei sind, die Rezession zu überwinden, welche sprechen dagegen? - Wie viel Konvergenz und Divergenz in der Europäischen Währungsunion sind...

Der zweitägige Workshop soll ein Forum für den Austausch und die Diskussion von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen aus dem Bereich der Makroökonomik bieten und gleichzeitig zur besseren Vernetzung der Konjunkturforschung beitragen. Willkommen sind Vortragsangebote aus allen Teilgebieten der...

Die EU steckt zurzeit in einer ihrer schwersten Krisen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Probleme der Währungsunion sehen manche das gesamte Projekt der europäischen Integration in Frage gestellt. Das Symposium soll – im Sinne einer historischen Selbstvergewisserung – nicht nur den erreichten Stand...

The conference aims to bring together researchers working on theoretical and empirical issues related to the patterns of recovery from the Great Recession. Among the areas of interest are: 1. The role of labor markets in macroeconomic rebalancing (in particular, the euro area) 2. Jobless...

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. Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Roberto Rigobon (MIT) August 5-9, 2013 - Basic tools of open macroeconomics: Intertemporal approach to the current account - International Micro...