The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics and...

Industrial Policy and Economic Development - Dr. Adnan Seric, UNIDO The course has three objectives. First, students acquire a thorough knowledge and understanding of key bodies of literature in the field of industrial policy and economic development, including a sense of the leading debates...

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

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...

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy - Atif Mian (Princeton University) This 5 day course is geared towards, (i) understanding how finance and the macro economy interact with each other, and (ii) introducing micro-empirical techniques to answer this question. The focus of the class is...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. - Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge) - Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Part II Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Institutions and Development - James Robinson (Harvard University) The main topic of this course is recent developments in political economy, particularly the political economy of...

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...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Tommaso Monacelli (Università Bocconi, IGIER, and CEPR) 1. Financial Imperfections and the Macroeconomy: Background Partial Equilibrium Models 2. Credit Market Imperfections and the...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Roberto Rigobon (MIT) August 5-9, 2013 - Basic tools of open macroeconomics: Intertemporal approach to the current account - International Micro...