At the conference, leading companies like Continental Automotive Systems and ZF Friedrichshafen AG provide insight in their approaches for the generation of variety by means of software instead of mechanics and for lean order fulfilment based on CtO. The situation of automotive industries can be...

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’...

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

The conference will bring together researchers from central banks, international institutions and academia to discuss the role of monetary and fiscal policy in times of financial crises. The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Course Summary: The course (Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago) will examine the global credit crisis, including the deep underlying causes, the more immediate fragilities in the financial...

The aim of this 2nd symposium is to provide a platform for scientists and practitioners (from both the telecom industry and regulatory offices) to discuss current challenges for the regulatory environment in order to foster innovation and investment and to boost competition. The symposium...

Topics: - Organisation of international activity (trade, foreign direct investment, outsourcing) - Internationalisation and performances at the firm-, industry- and country-level - Investment decisions and knowledge transfers - Location decisions of enterprises’ activities - Patterns and...

The conference „Intelligent Production Systems of the Future“, is designed to explore and present paths towards competitive and sustainable manufacturing. The efficient transformation of resources and especially of energy and material to products with the most valuable resource...

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...

Owing to the ongoing criticality of the air transport situation in Europe, it has been decided to postpone the Fifth ECB Conference on Statistics, entitled "Central bank statistics: what did the financial crisis change?", to October 2010 to coincide with World Statistics Day. Session 1: What is...