The Symposium will start by considering the significance of mobility in developing regions, including relevant cultural aspects. The following panel will explore ways of promoting mobility in developing regions in a sustainable manner. As the next step, sustainable mobility will be considered in...

We are looking for original empirical and theoretical contributions that have implications for concrete policy recommendations in any of the four broad areas outlined below: 1. The necessity of a new global development agenda. 2. The content and purpose of a new global development agenda. 3....

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Heidelberg University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. In this seminar (Professor Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and NBER) we will examine how global economic integration affects labor markets with emphasis on mechanisms related to global...

Submissions of papers consistent with one of the conference topics, or their interaction, or with related issues such as corruption, social benefit fraud, and other illicit economic activities are welcome. Papers may be theoretical, empirical, experimental, agent-based, etc.

This year’s special topic is “Regional Economic and Labor Market Policies: Concepts, Results, and Challenges”. The main objective of the conference is to share new research in the field of regional science. Therefore, other empirical and theoretical contributions to other interesting...

Unemployment insurance schemes changed in many countries in the last great recession. Several countries increased the duration of unemployment benefits, reinforced the coaching of unemployed workers, provided more training programs or facilitated short-time work compensation. The aim of this...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with the keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide...

The conference aims to bring together high-quality research that is at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. We are interested in theoretical and empirical contributions on how institutions affect the aggregate labor market performance and shape the reaction of the labor market...