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...

Exchange-Rate Economics - Lucio Sarno (City University, London) This five-day course provides an overview of selected topics in exchange rate economics. The topics covered include: (i) the interest rate parity conditions that underlie exchange rate economics, with a focus on understanding the...

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)

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...

Monetary Theory and Policy - Simon Gilchrist (Boston University and NBER) This course examines theoretical foundations of New Keynesian Models and their implications for the conduct of monetary policy. The course emphasizes empirically relevant models that are suitable for policy analysis. The...

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. Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice - Prof. Volker Wieland, Ph.D. (Institute of Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University of Frankfurt) The objective of this course is to provide...

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...