We invite theoretical and empirical research aimed at improving our understanding of the sources of fluctuations, their propagation, and their implications for macro policy in today’s globalised environment. Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Trade linkages,...

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

Conference Topics: - recent developments in heterogeneous-agent modeling; - the empirics of heterogeneity: micro data collection and model testing; - effects of monetary and fiscal policies in heterogeneous-agent economies; - macroeconomic drivers of inequality.

Empirical Methods in Money Macro - Maik Wolters (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) This course deals with the analysis of dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium models. The focus of this course is on methodological aspects related to the analysis of business cycle models. In particular we...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

We offer six tracks at our conferences: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Energy Policy, Engineering Education, and Health Sciences. The Business & Economics track provides a forum for faculty to present their research on any accounting, CIS/CMS, economics, finance, management,...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

ESSLE is designed to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term...