International agricultural trade is key to improving global food security. It ensures better access to more diversified and nutritious food, especially in low-income countries, and acts as a safety net against food shortages caused by climate risks, crises, political tensions and other shocks....

Topics: - Forecasting the economy with economic sentiment indicators; - Measurement and / or Effects of Economic uncertainty; - International financial markets; - Sovereign default risk; - Capital flows, capital controls, and exchange rates; - Unconventional monetary policy; - The corona...

Economists typically make simplifying assumptions to make the solution and estimation of their highly complex models feasible. These simplifications include approximating the true nonlinear dynamics of the model, disregarding aggregate uncertainty or assuming that all agents are identical. While...

Die Weltmärkte unterliegen einem fortlaufenden Wandel. Die globalen Gewichte im Handel verschieben sich durch aufstrebende und schwächelnde Volkswirtschaften. Neue politische Unsicherheiten gehen von dem unberechenbaren Gebaren des US-Präsidenten Trump und vom Brexit in Europa aus. Auf der...

Unter dem Motto "Forum Bundesbank" richtet die Hauptverwaltung in Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Schleswig-Holstein regelmäßig öffentliche, für jedermann zugängliche Vortragsveranstaltungen aus. Vertreter der Deutschen Bundesbank und externe Fachleute referieren im Rahmen dieser...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together senior and junior researchers to present and discuss original research examining the link between health and the labor market. Topics: - Health and labor market outcomes - Determinants of sickness absence - Health insurance and the labor market -...

The Kieler Konjunkturgespräche (KKG) is the Kiel Institute’s flagship conference on international business cycle analysis. Here we share our research work and discuss global macroeconomic issues with other forecasters, policy-makers, and business leaders.

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest theoretical and empirical research from all areas of finance, banking, and insurance.

Instructors: Christoph Böhringer, Ed Balistreri and Volker Clausen This workshop provides a practical guideline to CGE modeling of open economies using data of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) which includes detailed national accounts on production and consumption together with...

Conference Programm: - Payments, credit and asset prices, - Mortgage design in an equilibrium model of the housing market, - Life below zero: bank lending under negative policy rates, - Social learning and selective attention, - The tail that wags the economy: beliefs and persistent...