The CES “Critical Economics Summer School”, launched in 2009, brings together in annual meetings economists and other social scientists to discuss topics of shared interest. This series of summer schools aims at promoting a forum for critical research on the economy and in economics. This...

The “Empirical Strategies” course covers topics in econometrics and empirical modelling that are likely to be most useful to applied researchers. The main theoretical ideas are illustrated with empirical examples, mostly coming from the recent literature on policy evaluation to which...

Topics to be addressed in the school focus on: a) Preferences, values and beliefs; b) Principles and concepts for participation and deliberation; c) Tools for public and stakeholder participation in environmental decision making; d) Multicriteria evaluation – integrating different points of...

Courses: 1- Topics in Experimental and Behavioral Economics 2- New Development in International Trade and Investment 3- Survival Analysis 4- Simulation and the Bootstrap

Professor Findlay uses modern methods and models to address important questions of our recent economic history. In particular, he will lecture on: 1. The impact of demographic and monetary shocks, 2. The industrial revolution and its diffusion, 3. The triangular trade, and 4. North-South...