Competition is a key component of well-functioning markets and fosters productivity, innovation, technological progress and growth. Globalisation and technology have been powerful forces transforming competition in product markets all over the world. These two forces, especially in the context...

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

Under the theme Fast-Tracking Market Integration in Africa through Industrial Corridors, the 27th World Economic Forum on Africa will convene regional and global leaders from business, government and civil society to explore instruments that can accelerate effective regional industrial...

We welcome contributions linking economic convergence to: - balanced and sustainable growth in the global economy, including global imbalances, - sectoral reallocation (and unconditional convergence), - total factor productivity, - the quality of institutions, - income distribution and the...

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

Under the theme Redefining Public Private Cooperation for a New Beginning, this meeting will bring together high-level leaders from government, civil society and business for an issue-based interaction that takes stock of promises made in the election manifesto and explores how to collectively...

Under the theme “Unlocking Resources for Economic Growth”, the meeting will focus in particular on four pillars: - Turkey’s vision and future, particularly in regard to its G20 leadership - Shifting energy dynamics across the region - The future of infrastructure, both physical and...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Economic Growth - David Weil (Brown University) This course will consist of five lectures, each lasting three hours. Day 1: Facts, Framework, and Measurement Day 2: Cross-country regressions...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...