The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

TOPICS We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between sovereign bond markets and conventional and unconventional monetary policy, regulation, fiscal policy, foreign exchange, and the macroeconomy in inflationary times. Topics of interest include (but are not limited...

New Challenges for Monetary and Fiscal Policy Posed by Financial Frictions - Lawrence J. Christiano (Northwestern University) This course will address various new challenges for fiscal and monetary policy. Most of these reflect the increased recognition of the economic importance of financial...

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

Die Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt und der demografische Wandel stellen den öffentlichen Dienst vor große Herausforderungen, die nur von Arbeitgebern und Beschäftigten gemeinsam bewältigt werden können. Personalräte sind in diesem Entwicklungsprozess besonders gefordert,...

Topics: - Stabilisation policies and growth in a low interest rate environment; - The economics of high public debt reconsidered; - Fiscal federalism revisited; - Fiscal rules, fiscal institutions, or both: political economy considerations.

Digitale Revolution, Arbeit 4.0, Smart Services und einschneidende Veränderungen bei Tätigkeiten und Beschäftigung sowie bestehenden Geschäftsmodellen: Einige Beispiele für begriffliche Warn-und Hinweisschilder, die auf der „Baustelle Zukunft“ begegnen können. Oft verwirren sie mehr,...

25 Jahre deutsche Einheit bedeuten auch 25 Jahre deutsche Gewerkschaftseinheit. Die Tagung beabsichtigt zum einen eine Bestandaufnahme von Ergebnisse und Perspektiven der Forschung zur Rolle der Gewerkschaften im Prozess der Einheit. Zum anderen sollen mit Zeitzeuginnen und Zeitzeugen...

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers in different fields of banking, entrepreneurship, and finance working on issues related to the financing and governance of entrepreneurial firms and their impact on the creation, development, and performance of these firms. We are...