The 2008 Summer School is a week-long intensive seminar designed to bring together a pool of international lecturers and graduate students to discuss key issues in financial history. This year the focus will be on the relations between war and finance. Lecturers will present case studies from a...

The purpose of this Summer School is to review and present methods of modeling spatial problems in ecological economics, and to show how these methods can be used in environmental and resource management. In this context the Summer Schools is expected to cover issues associated with: - the use...

The subjects covered in the summer school will include "Advanced Quantitative Methods: Applied Multivariate Data Analysis, Bootstrapping and Productivity/Efficiency Measurement." The course presents the latest developments in parametric and nonparametric approaches. Recent advances in these...

Lecturers and Topics: - Dilip Mookherjee (Boston) – Theoretical Overview - Nava Ashraf (Harvard) – Overview of Empirical Methodologies - Erica Field (Harvard) – Property Rights; Gender and Fertility - Imran Rasul (University College, London) – Education; Social Networks - Dean Yang...