The seminar invites an international scientific audience in the fields of agricultural and resource economics, regional economics, political economy, institutional economics, political science and other relevant disciplines. Topics: - Two decades transition and development: experiences, theories...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Dr. St. Reitz (Institute for the World Economy Kiel) Topics 1. Basic econometric concepts 2. Introduction to RATS programming 3. The classical linear regression model 4. Modelling...

The seminar aims at constituting an opportunity to highlight the adverse effects for the agro-food sector and rural economy due to the recent financial crisis and food markets speculation, to measure and evaluate the depth of the damage in the affected areas, to develop and discuss solutions and...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. J. Peter Neary, University of Oxford The objective of this course of ten three-hour lectures (about 27.5 teaching hours in total) is to give a self-contained introduction to the theory of...

This workshop gathers economists working in the field of economic dynamics, growth theory, international trade, mathematical modeling of economic dynamics, on problems of equilibrium growth and on models of large trading economies. Other important themes of the Workshop include the role, causes...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Eric van Wincoop(University of Virginia) The class focuses on models of international asset trade and capital flows, contagion of financial shocks across countries, the determination of...

The seminar will focus on empirical applications on the study of governance of food and fibre value chains. Emphasis is on applications using various methodologies such as econometrics, simulations, experimental economics, networks, mathematical programming case studies, applied theory, and...

The course includes the topics: - Introduction to central concepts: vector autoregressive processes, error-correction models, non-stationary processes and cointegration. - Representation of cointegrated processes. - Estimation and testing in the cointegrated VAR model. - Identification and...

This course introduces topics from research in financial time series econometrics. For each topic, econometric methods are discussed and illustrated by empirical applications. After completion of the course the student will have obtained a fundamental knowledge of central econometric modeling as...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. dr. Jakob de Haan (University of Groningen and De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam) Lectures: 1. Governance of the ECB Topics covered: independence of the ECB, governance of the ECB,...