The IZA Summer School is open to PhD students working on labor economics and closely related topics. We particularly encourage applications from female students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Das Thema der erstmalig stattfindenden Summer School lautet: “Homo oeconomicus in decline? The Economic Value of Religion.” In dreifacher Weise soll das Thema ausgeleuchtet werden. Einmal fragen wir nach neuen alternativen Modellen zum überkommenen „rational choice“-Paradigma. Dann...

Courses: - Advanced Economics of Innovation - Advanced Theory of Institutions - Antitrust Law and Economics - Behavioral Labor Economics - Cooperative Game Theorys - Econometric Analysis of Experimental Data - Experiments and Models of Collective Behavior - Intra and Intergroup Decision Making -...

The CFS Summer School 2008: - offers a scenic and stimulating environment for Ph.D. students to learn about the latest developments in their field from renowned international faculty, - helps postgraduate researchers in the positioning of their work through the exchange of research ideas and...

Topics: 1) Short revision of the basics of asset allocation and asset pricing 2) Asset prices and allocations in the presence of - Limited participation - Short-sale constraints - Liquidity risk - Heterogeneous beliefs - Heterogeneous risk aversion - Recursive preferences - Prospect theory...

Issues of monetary economics, the theory of growth and distribution, and the relation of Post-Keynesian Economics to other heterodox traditions, but also to the now prevalent New Keynesian approach, will be covered as well as applications of Keynesian theory to issues of unemployment, monetary...

The subject of this year’s summer school is Asymmetric Information and Learning in Financial Markets: Theory and Time Series Econometrics.

The importance of empirical methods applied to micro (household or firm) data, and the use of experimental methods to obtain new insights into micro behavior, has been emphasized most prominently by the Nobel Prizes in Economics to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000, and to Vernon Smith...

Courses for Postgraduates with a Background in Law & Economics

The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics. The School is open to advanced graduate students from European universities, or Europeans studying abroad, engaged in the preparation of a doctoral...