Topics: - Regional differences of transaction costs - Economic analysis of the mass media in Europe - Valorizing differences in natural endowment of countries and regions - Disbalances in norms and standards in EU regions and equilibrium tendencies on markets of goods and production factors -...

This three-day intensive course presents methods for performance measurement for multi-input multioutput firms. Among other things, participants will learn how Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) can be used to decompose indexes of profitability and...

Concerning civil society’s relations to economic development, among others, the following general questions of issue might be raised: • Conceptual and theoretical issues • Which tendencies of development can be observed within the Swedish and international social economy? • In what...

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...

The annual thematic workshop, planned by the PGPPE programme, is aimed at broadening the important discussion on the relations between optimal policy designs, externalities, public goods, and growth.

Theoretical and empirical papers on productivity, production and efficiency measurement in industrial engineering, economics, operations research, management science, or related fields are invited. The conference covers new contributions in micro and macroeconomics, including theory of...

The Conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of recent research on growth and business cycles from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

The Summer School “Human Capital and Economic Growth” of the Faculty of Economics Rimini and RCEA will combine a thorough review of the literature (both theoretical and empirical) along with state-of-the-art econometric analysis of the issues on the role of human capital in economic growth.

Theme: Perspectives for the Global Economy: The Aftermath of the Financial Shocks

Antonio Ciccone (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Topics: 1. Institutions, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity 2. Trade, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity 3. Finance and Growth 4. Human Capital, Externalities, and Growth 5. Institution, Inequality, and Development