This course covers empirical methods for volatility measurement, modelling and forecasting. Part 1 considers the highly parametric setting of GARCH models as well as the more complex setting of stochastic volatility models. Part 2 focuses on the relatively simple modelfree realized volatility...

The workshop is intended to bring together economists working on International Trade modeling and Globalization and Economic Development analysis. Of particular interest are works developing general equilibrium models of a static and/or dynamic nature with perfectly and/or imperfectly...

List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

THEME: Crisis, Critique and Change Which crisis? Whose critique? What changes? Making the world safe for banks is only one side of the coin. The present crisis is multi-faceted. It is not just a debt crisis, but also a political and a social crisis.

The main theme of the Congress is "Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy" Besides the main theme, the congress is open for all issues concerning regional problems.

Topics: - Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments regarding the achievement of environmental targets - Assessments of environmental policies regarding their effects on economic welfare indicators - How to create sets of instruments with synergetic effects and how to avoid sets with...

Questions to be addressed in the workshop include: - What drives carbon prices? Is there evidence that firms reduced emissions relative to a business-as-usual scenario? Has the EU ETS induced the development new technologies, and/or the adoption of existing technology? - What is the relationship...

The theme of this Summer School is Uncertainty, Innovation and Climate Change. Uncertainty is a key component of climate change policy making. Although the anthropogenic warming of the planet is unquestioned, there still exist large uncertainties affecting several dimensions of the problem. From...

Business and business-related issues are covered including the following topic groups: Business strategy; Change management and organizational development; Conflict management; Critical management; Economic growth; Entrepreneurship; Gender, diversity and social issues; Human resource management...

Topics : - Intra-industry versus inter-industry trade: effects on wages, employment, inequality and migration. - Offshoring, outsourcing and FDI: effects on home and host labour markets - Labour migration, trade flows, and FDI : substitutability versus complementarity - Trade, specialization...