Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Ziel der Tagung ist es, mehr Differenziertheit in die Diskussion der Effekte dieser Zuwanderungen auf die Regionen (Kommunen, Kreise, Regionen, Länder …), die Wirtschaft, die Sozialstruktur u.a.m. zu bringen. Daher laden wir Beiträge ein, die aktuelle Ergebnisse aus der empirischen...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

Kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen bilden eine starke Säule der deutschen Wirtschaft. Rund 37 Prozent des gesamten Umsatzes der Unternehmen in Deutschland wird von ihnen erwirtschaftet. Beim ISM Summit in München werden von 10 bis 18 Uhr verschiedene Fachexperten aus der Wirtschaft und...

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

Die Summer Schools bieten internationalen und deutschen Studierenden aller Fachrichtungen die Möglichkeit ihre Managementkenntnisse zu erweitern. Daneben wird Know-how für den Berufsstart bei internationalen Unternehmen und Organisationen in Deutschland und im Ausland...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses selected empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The Summer School in Labor Market Research, organized by the DFG Priority Programme 1764 "The German Labor Market in a Globalized World: Challenges through Trade, Technology, and Demographics", aims to bring together PhD students, junior researchers, and renowned international researchers to...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss applied economic research. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions from all fields of macro­economics and international economics with an emphasis on a high rele­vance for economic policy. The special topic of the workshop will be...

Globalisation and Labour Markets - David Dorn (University of Zurich) This seminar examines how global economic integration affects labor markets in the United States and in Western Europe, with emphasis on mechanisms related to international trade and offshoring, adoption of new technologies,...