The Summer School addresses PhD students and Post-docs with a strong academic record and a keen interest in policy issues, and staff members of policy institutions.

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

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 International Financial Crisis has resulted in a number of new approaches for analyzing the links between financial markets and macroeconomic performance. This includes the explicit integration of a financial sector in standard macroeconomic models, as well as the consideration of aspects...

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...

he Summer School addresses PhD students and Post-docs with a strong academic record and a keen interest in policy issues, and young members of policy institutions such as central banks, ministries, and international organisations. The size of the group is limited to 25 participants; the age...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. The objective of this course (Prof. Volker Wieland, Goethe University of Frankfurt) is to provide an introduction to the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy making with practical...

Prof. Tito Boeri – Bocconi University, Milan The course will focus on the macroeconomic implications of institutions regulating imperfect labour markets. In particular, we will cover the following set of institutions: employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, active labour...

The course will be based on Philipe Aghion’s new book "The Economics of Growth" Lecture 1: The Schumpeterian Growth Model Lecture 2: Convergence and Wage Inequality Lecture 3: Competition, Entry and Trade Lecture 4: Appropriate Growth Policy and Education Lecture 5: Environment and...