The aim of the first Kiel Institute Summer School is to permit top-flight graduate students, as well as young policy makers with a graduate degree background the opportunity to gain state-of-the-art insights on how to reform welfare systems, in order to meet the challenges in a globalizing...

The issues addressed in this conference thus lie at both the national and the international level, with a particular focus on the interaction between these two levels. At the national level, the question is how the regulation of medical technology can be improved to serve a country’s policy...

This conference will be the seventh programme meeting of the Public Policy programme. Its goal is to provide a forum for high quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. Papers are invited in any...

This conference is the inaugural event in a new series known as ESF–IfW Conferences on The Global Health Economy – A Partnership between the European Science Foundation, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Schleswig-Holstein’s Biomedical „Inflammation at Interfaces“ Cluster...

The I.S.E.O. Summer School course introduces to some of the principles of international economy, investigating the role of America and Europe in the international economic scenario. It focuses on growth, on the strategies and instruments of monetary policy, on the structure and mechanisms of the...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the Jerusalem conference. Papers focusing on “Globalization and Growth in a Long Term Perspective” are of special interest. Issues involving Human Capital, Technology, and Development Stages are welcome.

Rapid progress in information and communication technologies stirs up modern economies as do the liberalisation and deregulation of traditional network-based industries. These developments pose new challenges for economic theory and economic policy. Thus, there is a growing body of both...

The aim of this UACES study group is to analyse a specific set of macroeconomic policies in selected Eastern European countries not covered by the current EU Enlargement process. Specifically, the aim is to concentrate on the major CIS (Community of Independent States) countries: Belarus,...