The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Firms in International Trade - Marc Melitz (Department of Economics, Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently...

Papers addressing the following questions are particularly welcome: - How should governments tax multinational firms? - How should tax policy respond to income shifting? - How do corporate taxes impact investment and financing decisions of multinational firms? - What are the economic...

Interested Ph.D. students, post docs and assistant professors in economics with a firm interest in the field of migration are invited to submit a research paper.

Der Workshop beleuchtet das Thema Arbeitsmobilität aus mikro- und makroökonomischer Perspektive und untersucht Anreize und Folgen der Migration innerhalb Deutschlands. Es werden unter anderem folgende Themenbereiche diskutiert: - Gibt es neue Mobilitätsmuster in Deutschland? Welche Regionen...

Bei den 30. Benediktbeurer Management-Gesprächen soll es daher um die Diskussion folgender Fragen gehen: - Welche Chancen bietet das Konzept der Glokalisierung und wie lassen sich diese optimal nutzen? - Globale Marke oder lokaler Spezialist? - Wie lässt sich die "glokale Balance" finden? -...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

Program: - Cash Transfers and Social Assistance - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration - Education, Informality and Inequality - Education and Discrimination - Education and Labor Markets - Labor Market Programs and Employment - Health, Participation and Remittances - Welfare and Social Effects...

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is pleased to announce the third conference of its international research programme "Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies" (SEEK). We seek high-quality academic work in areas such as: - Dual labour...

EU-LFS and EU-SILC are the most important official microdata for comparative social research in Europe. An increasing number of researchers use these data for a wide range of economic and social analyses. Topics addressed include e.g. the impact of the crisis on employment and unemployment,...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...