STEG research themes: - Data and measurement related to structural transformation - Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy - Labour, home production, and structural transformation - Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps - Trade and spatial frictions - Political economy and...

The meeting aims at bringing together lead economists to discuss how the productive structure is reacting to the recent pandemic, energy and trade shocks, and the growing relevance of micro-macro interactions between public policies, firm choices, and aggregate productivity. We welcome both...

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms’ activity, the organization of production and firm’s financing, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. This year’s conference particularly welcomes...

The objectives of the 182 EAAE Seminar are to bring together scholars and researchers that will exchange ideas, practices and research initiatives that cover the current developments in biodiversity, sustainability and the agri-food supply chain. The ultimate goal of these objectives is to...

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

Topics: - Institutional design and governance of global and/or local food supply chains - Adoption of technological, commercial and institutional innovations in food supply chains -­ Impact of specific supply chain innovations on outcome variables related to economic growth, poverty reduction,...

The seminar invites an international scientific audience in the fields of agricultural and resource economics, regional economics, political economy, institutional economics, political science and other relevant disciplines. Topics: - Two decades transition and development: experiences, theories...

The seminar will focus on empirical applications on the study of governance of food and fibre value chains. Emphasis is on applications using various methodologies such as econometrics, simulations, experimental economics, networks, mathematical programming case studies, applied theory, and...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po, Paris) Gravity: 1 – Why is gravity so universal? 2 – Border effects 3 – Trade with heterogeneity: gravity still rules Geography: 4 - The history of thought...