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. This course (Prof. Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago) investigates the interrelationship between financial markets and macroeconomics, presenting some recent developments in that...

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

Steven Ongena (CentER-Tilburg University and CEPR) The course will discuss current topics in banking and finance, with an emphasis on theory, empirical methods, applications and results. The course consists of five half-days of in-class-work. Topic 1: INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: BANK –...

Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Lecture I: Overview, intertemporal models of the current account, global current account imbalances. Challenges to the canonical model. Lecture II: Sovereign Risk and Investment for Emerging markets. Lecture III: Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy; Speculative...

Geert Bekaert (Columbia University) Outline: Session 1: • Globalization and its Effects on the Economy • The Case for International Diversification Session 2: • Global Asset allocation • Review Mean Variance Optimization • CAPM • Home Bias Session 3: • Currencies • Optimal...