In recent years scientific publishing has changed rapidly in response to the growth of the internet. Thanks to the internet, open access to research and data has become much more common. Apart from the increase in access to old forms of research, the internet has given rise to new forms of...

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy - Atif Mian (Princeton University) This 5 day course is geared towards, (i) understanding how finance and the macro economy interact with each other, and (ii) introducing micro-empirical techniques to answer this question. The focus of the class is...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Tommaso Monacelli (Università Bocconi, IGIER, and CEPR) 1. Financial Imperfections and the Macroeconomy: Background Partial Equilibrium Models 2. Credit Market Imperfections and the...

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...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich) This course consists of ve times three-hour lectures covering research topics in the area of innovation, fi nancial development and...

The International Financial Crisis has resulted in a number of new approaches for analyzing the links between financial markets and macroeconomic performance. This includes the explicit integration of a financial sector in standard macroeconomic models, as well as the consideration of aspects...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Prof. Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago) investigates the interrelationship between financial markets and macroeconomics, presenting some recent developments in that...

Topics: - entrepreneurship and “the entrepreneur” in modern theories of economic growth - long-run relationship between entrepreneurship, economic growth and productivity - knowledge context and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities - regional variation in new firm formation:...

Conference Theme: After the financial crisis: Where do we go from here?