The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on conflict, social cohesion, and Development. The school is targeted to graduate students,...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on investment choices in developing economies. The school is targeted to graduate students,...

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: - The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises; - Macro and Micro Skewness and Volatility Over the Business Cycle; - Do We Need Traditional Dealers in OTC Markets?; - U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity; - Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market...

Program: - "Countercyclical Congestion"; - "The Real Wages of Newly Hired Workers over the Business Cycle: When the Difference between Worker Flows from Unemployment and Out-of-Labor Force Matters"; - "The Dynamics of Job Search in Unemployment"; - "Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

The current macroeconomic environment of low interest rates, low inflation and (in some cases) low growth has been going on for a prolonged period of time in many advanced countries, spurring a debate on both its causes and its policy implications: Why is inflation falling short of central...

Given the high level of uncertainty concerning travel restrictions, especially from/to the US, we have decided to postpone this summer school's edition to 2021 (the new dates are not available yet). Nonetheless, we will organise a short online "Summer School Workshop" on the 4th of September...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on social norms in developing countries.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together senior and junior researchers to present and discuss original research examining the link between health and the labor market. Topics: - Health and labor market outcomes - Determinants of sickness absence - Health insurance and the labor market -...

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...