Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Die soeb-Werkstattgespräche sind ein Veranstaltungsformat, mit dem sich der Verbund einer Fachöffentlichkeit öffnet, um sich mit ausgewählten externen Experten zu seinen Fragestellungen und Konzepten auszutauschen. Das dritte Werkstattgespräch des Verbunds soeb 3 diskutiert aus aktueller...

The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, theoretical and empirical research in the following fields: - International perspectives on the labour market - Health and labour market outcomes - Intergenerational mobility - Macroeconomic analysis of labour markets - Labour market...

The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive): methodology of business surveys; uncertainty...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: - Causes and consequences of stagnation - Comparison of economic performance in different parts of the world - Role of regulatory, fiscal, monetary and labour market policies - Role of inequality, private and public debt and wealth -...

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

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

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

Topics: - Formal and informal institutions and firms in the open economy - Natural resources and the quality of institutions - Interactions between domestic product and factor markets, institutions and comparative advantage - The role of institutions in transition - Institutional determinants of...