The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Carl E. Walsh, University of California) focuses on the theoretical foundations of monetary economics and their policy implications, with some attention paid to the models’...

The recent global financial crisis has shown that one needs to reconsider traditional ways of analysing monetary policy and include new elements, such as financial frictions, the use of unconventional monetary policies, the interaction of monetary and fiscal policies, and the relationship...

Professor Jakob de Haan (University of Groningen) Lectures: 1. Governance of the ECB 2. Monetary policy of the ECB 3. Communication policies of the ECB 4. On the need for fiscal rules in a monetary union 5. Other driving forces of fiscal policy in the EU