The course addresses the following questions: What are the advantages and limitations of experimental economics? How important are deviations from the assumptions of full rationality and strict self-interest in determining outcomes of economic interaction? It is argued that identifying...

Conference Tracks: - Business in society; - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management: New Opportunities and Challenges; - Human resource development in a new reality; - International business and emerging markets; - Managing Diverse Talent in a Divided World; - Marketing: current trends &...

The Barcelona Banking Summer School offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and...

Macroeconometrics is an important area of research in economics. Time series methods for empirical macroeconomics have become very popular and widely used in the academia as well as in public and private institutions. The goal of the Barcelona Macroeconometrics Summer School is to offer courses...

Course Content: The increasing availability of individual data from surveys has led not only to a significant growth in the number of academic jobs of an empirical nature using this type of information but also to a greater number of studies commissioned by public and private institutions in...

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses...

The objective of the course is to present state of the frontier research on systemic risk and to illustrate its implications for micro and macro prudential regulation as well as monetary and competition policy. The course will begin with the definition, characterization, measurement and analysis...

The conference will bring together academic, central bank and other financial sector economists working in areas of macroeconomics and finance in which Niels Thygesen (who will turn 80 on 13 December) has been and still is active.

We welcome papers from all fields related to Life Cycle choices, including papers dealing with theoretical and empirical issues relating to topics such as: non-consumption and saving decisions with standard and non-standard preferences, purchases of durable consumption items, housing decisions,...

Preliminary Course Title: International Financial Integration: Determinants of, and Welfare/Productivity Gains from. Empirical Estimation. Presenter: Bent E. Sørensen, Lay Professor of International Economics, University of Houston and CEPR. Background discussion: Investors all over the world...