Topics: Asset returns and spending; Spending effects of unemployment events; Welfare consequences of social insurance programs; The impact of mortgage refinancing on spending; Validation of new spending measures; Consumption inequality; Spending effects of public policies; Insurance within the...

This course introduces topics from research in financial time series econometrics. For each topic, the econometric methods are discussed and illustrated by empirical applications. Topics are selected from within: 1) Econometric Modeling of Asset Returns: - Multivariate GARCH models with...

The course focuses on work organizations, both business organizations (private firms) and organizations within the public sector. Organization theory is an interdisciplinary field and the course draws on perspectives from different social science disciplines. Both, the so-called rational and...

The notion of The Good Organization can be approached from a variety of different conceptual and normative positions and generate discussions about a range of contemporary organizational phenomena. We encourage the submission of sub-theme proposals for this Colloquium, which seek to explore and...