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? -...

The workshop aims to bring together economists who apply behavioral economics and experimental methods in health economic research to present and discuss their research papers. We welcome contributions on all topics within health economics applying experimental methods, be it laboratory or field...

The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, theoretical and empirical research in the following fields: - International perspectives on the labour market - Health and labour market outcomes - Intergenerational mobility - Macroeconomic analysis of labour markets - Labour market...

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...

Dieses Jahr packt das Symposium ein Thema an, dass die Qualität des Gesundheitswesens im Kern berührt: die vernetzte Versorgung. Interessante Diskussionsimpulse zur Thematik erhalten Sie von renommierten Experten aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis. In vertiefenden Foren werden zudem...

The World Health Summit is the annual conference of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies. Topics: - Climate Change and Health - Medical Education - Global Health Policy and Governance in the G7 and G20 Countries - Healthy Aging and Prevention - Health...

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...

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...

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

Topics: - Formal and informal institutions and firms in the open economy - Natural resources and the quality of institutions - Interactions between domestic product and factor markets, institutions and comparative advantage - The role of institutions in transition - Institutional determinants of...