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

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Empirical Methods: Macroeconomics - Stefan Reitz (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) Applied Econometrics of FX Markets Course syllabus 1. Basic econometric concepts 2. Introduction to...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Dr. St. Reitz (Institute for the World Economy Kiel) Topics 1. Basic econometric concepts 2. Introduction to RATS programming 3. The classical linear regression model 4. Modelling...

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. Chris Reicher (IfW Kiel) This course is intended to be a course in practical applied econometrics. Its emphasis will be more on the practical application of econometrics and less on theory,...

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...

David DeJong (University of Pittsburgh) The focus of the course is on the empirical implementation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. The course is organized around the following empirical exercise. Beginning with a model environment, a non-linear expectational system of...

Jonas Dovern and Jens Hogrefe (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics (module I) Topics: 1. Introduction to Econometrics 2. The Classical Multiple Regression Model 3. Properties of the OLS Estimator 4. Hypothesis Tests 5. Selection of Explanatory Variables 6....