Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Topics: - changes in wage, price and output dynamics and correlations over the business cycle - impact of medium-run macro and financial trends on the natural rate of interest and the output gap hysteresis effects and implications for monetary...

The transition to a low-carbon economy requires shifting trillions from brown to green activities. Given that the horizon of materialisation of climate risk is narrowing, the need to change scale is becoming more pressing for all actors. Also, central banks are playing an increasingly important...

The aim of the conference is to discuss new modeling approaches and novel empirical evidence on heterogeneity in the behaviour of firms, households and financial intermediaries, and on policies aimed to address economic challenges arising in specific markets, regions or group of agents but...

Empirical Methods in Money Macro - Maik Wolters (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) This course deals with the analysis of dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium models. The focus of this course is on methodological aspects related to the analysis of business cycle models. In particular we...

The Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and the Deutsche Bundesbank hold a joint conference on the problems of the labour market performance during the crisis in Europe and also the U.S. Of specific (but not exclusive) interest are submissions on - The role of labor mobility for Euro Area...

This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various issues related to inflation developments, offering new perspectives on structural analysis, forecasting and economic policy design and assessment. Possible topics include: - Heterogeneity of...

Climate change poses a major challenge to governments, industry and society. Since international negotiations on the control of greenhouse gas emissions have so far not led to an agreement that is able to avoid dangerous climate change, researchers, governments, and actors in civil society have...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Sjak Smulders (Tilburg University) This course of five three-hour lectures deals with a number of hot topics in environmental economics, with an emphasis on international environmental...

Referate: -"Der Zettel hier ist tausend Kronen wert" – Wie lässt sich die Inflationsgefahr bändigen? Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otmar Issing - "... durch Tausendkünstler schnell vertausendfacht"? Goethe und die Geldpolitik in Deutschland um 1800 Dr. Gerhard Müller - Under What Circumstances...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia) This course will cover the recent literature on the interaction between international trade and the environment. It begins with some of the key...