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? -...

New Challenges for Monetary and Fiscal Policy Posed by Financial Frictions - Lawrence J. Christiano (Northwestern University) This course will address various new challenges for fiscal and monetary policy. Most of these reflect the increased recognition of the economic importance of financial...

Die soeb-Werkstattgespräche sind ein Veranstaltungsformat, mit dem sich der Verbund einer Fachöffentlichkeit öffnet, um sich mit ausgewählten externen Experten zu seinen Fragestellungen und Konzepten auszutauschen. Das dritte Werkstattgespräch des Verbunds soeb 3 diskutiert aus aktueller...

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...

Topics: - the functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment; - the impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation, including empirical studies on segmentation in the money markets of...

The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive): methodology of business surveys; uncertainty...

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...

Die Novelle des WissZeitVg ist beschlossene Sache. Nunmehr gilt es, die Konsequenzen auszuloten und die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen für die tägliche Arbeit in Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen produktiv zu machen. Diese Tagung thematisiert die wechselseitigen Erwartungen von Politik...

Die Europäische Fachtagung „Von Deutschlands Grenzen nach Brüssel und zurück“ fragt nach den aktuellen Entwicklungen und Perspektiven grenzregionaler und darüber hinaus grenzüberschreitender Berufsbildungsgestaltung. Was sind die Bezugspunkte für die Bildungskooperationen und inwiefern...

The conference will bring together researchers from academia and policy institutions to discuss the reasons why inflation has been persistently low recently in many industrialised countries as well as the design of appropriate macroeconomic policy responses. Topics: - monetary policy at the...