This conference is aimed at investigating the relationship between financial structure, corporate governance and firm performance in highly competitive and integrated markets. Questions of interest include (but are not limited to): • What are the determinants of the ownership modes across...

The main aim of this 25 hours course is to provide an introduction to applied macroeconomics and macroeconometrics with MATLAB. The approach is problem based, i.e. students will be made familiar with the software using well-known examples from both economic theory and applied econometrics.

Main Topics: - Behavioral Law & economics: the state of the art and recent developments; - Experimental economics and incomplete contracts; - Bounded rationality, modularity and organization design, - Behavioral and experimental game theory: trust, social norms and institutions; - Law &...

Topics: - Industrial Organization Theory - Competition Policy - Regulation - Empirical Industrial Organization - The Economics of R&D: theory and applications - Experimants in Industrial Organization

The main topic of the conference will be applied macroeconomic forecasting with special emphasis on the following subjects: - forecasting with business surveys data; - forecasting with real time macroeconomic data; - detecting and forecasting turning points; - forecasts combination and model...

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...

Conference speakers will focus on the implications for business and governments and adress such questions as: - Will global growth remain robust, and allow Europe to sustain stronger growth? - What is Europe doing to overcome its structural problems and achieve the Lisbon objectives? - Could...