The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

The Symposium will start by considering the significance of mobility in developing regions, including relevant cultural aspects. The following panel will explore ways of promoting mobility in developing regions in a sustainable manner. As the next step, sustainable mobility will be considered in...

Topics: - Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis of ICT - Analysis & Practical Uses, Global/Sectoral Spinn-off of the Internet - Transformation of Traditional Markets - Place & Development of New Markets - Role/Evolution of Intellectual Property Rights - Modelling, Development of Internet and ICT -...

Topics: - Intra- and Interorganisational Networks and Cooperation - Internationalization and Strategies of Decentralization - Decentralization and International Human Resource Management - Decentralization of Public Services - Family Businesses and Networks - Internal Capital Markets and Capital...

We are looking for original empirical and theoretical contributions that have implications for concrete policy recommendations in any of the four broad areas outlined below: 1. The necessity of a new global development agenda. 2. The content and purpose of a new global development agenda. 3....

The EADI-DSA 2011 conference seeks to maximise the opportunity of working together and to revisit and rethink ‘development’, to generate new ideas, new narratives and new thinking whenever possible globally co-constructed with partners in global-South. The conference will begin with the...

Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network, MAER-Net, is an international network of scholars who specialize in or use meta-analysis to understand economics. The purpose of the colloquium is to share ideas and methods among meta-analysts and to introduce young scholars to this rapidly growing...

The relationship between innovation and economic governance institutions is a relatively under-studied area of research. This has been the case despite extensive work on the relationship between governance quality and other economic outcomes such as growth, investment, and income distribution....

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po, Paris) Gravity: 1 – Why is gravity so universal? 2 – Border effects 3 – Trade with heterogeneity: gravity still rules Geography: 4 - The history of thought...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...