Eight intensive, one-week courses will be offered during the period from August to September 2018. All courses will be highly interactive, method-, and application-oriented. They will be delivered by outstanding instructors from RWTH Aachen University and other prestigious international...

The five-day event will focus on “Institutional Economics and Agricultural Development” and will introduce the various concepts of defining and conceptualizing economic institutions, focusing especially on institutions of natural resource use, agricultural production and agricultural...

This workshop provides a practical guideline to CGE modeling of open economies using data of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) which includes detailed national accounts on production and consumption together with bilateral trade flows for a large number of countries. The workshop will...

PhD students and early career researchers are invited to attend and present their work. Lectures will be given by: - Sascha Becker (Warwick) on “Long-run development and institutions” - Ruben Durante (Sciences Po & UPF) on “Political economics of traditional and new media” - Hannes...

The aim of the EFMD-HUMANE Summer School is to develop the leadership potential of senior managers in higher education involved in major transformational change programmes by making them fully aware of: - The critical success factors associated with the re-design of professional services for...

The PROMEBI Summer School is mainly targeted at M.A., PhD students and early career researchers with a social science background and specific research interest in the field. In recent years there has been a substantial increase in both quantity and quality of research analyzing tensions between...

Topic: “Fairness and the Economy: Theoretical, Ethical and Political Aspects”

The basic course “Bayesian Approach in Social Science” will be given by keynote lecturer Dr. Hannes Kröger (Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany; European University Institute, Florence, Italy).

This one-week crash course is an introduction to the field of experimental economics. The course provides students with skills needed to design and run an experiment. There will be an additional one-day module on Statistical Data Analysis at the end of the course (on August 25). The summer...

The GESIS Summer School is made for you if you are an advanced graduate or PhD student, a post-doc, junior researcher, or survey professional from any relevant field, who: - is interested in improving their general knowledge and skills in survey methodology; - is planning to run an own survey or...