The viability of innovation processes leading to increases in productivity and faster growth depends mainly on the coordination of the accumulation of physical capital and the complementary accumulation of human capital. This will be the theme of this year’s school, with focus on the financial...

The event is targeted to PhD researchers and post graduate students who have an interest in the economic dimension of cultural diversity. It aims to create awareness of the challenges involved in multidisciplinary research focusing on cultural diversity and to discuss the response that cultural...

This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include: - Global...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economics and development. This year it will focus on the main analytical and empirical approaches to the link between international trade and...

The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (Uncertainty School) combines approaches from Economics, Law and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses.

The School consists of three two-week sessions. Each session offers a variety of courses. Courses run for either one or two weeks. Courses consist of at least one lecture and a practical session daily. Most courses deal with techniques of data collection, analysis, and model building. The Summer...

The Summer school runs over three weeks with a course program consisting of 45 hours of lectures in class, 30 hours of prepared exercises (theoretical and practical) in class and individual project work supervised by the faculty members. The guiding principle of the summer school is ‘learning...

Session 2 EC101: Introductory Microeconomics EC201: Intermediate Microeconomics EC235: Economics of European Integration EC240: Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development EC260: The Political Economy of Public Policy EC312: Advanced Econometrics EC322: Topics in Econometrics EC341:...

The topic of the 4th Advanced Summer School will be on "Behavioral Finance". The lectures of the Summer School provided an up-to-date coverage of the main methods and models used in bahavioral finance.

The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Post-Keynesian economics and to the problems of European economic policies as well as presenting some ongoing research to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. Issues of monetary economics, the theory of growth...