In the aftermath of the crisis, this workshop will focus on employment creation as a means of remedying the strong rises in unemployment seen in some economies. The workshop will pay particular attention to the factors behind, and pre-requisites for, the creation of high quality and high...

Topics: - Household consumption, saving, and portfolio choice - Housing, mortgage markets, and financial markets - Household finance, credit constraints and monetary policy - Household indebtedness and financial distress - Household finances and the financial and economic crisis - Financing...

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? -...

The workshop aims to bring together economists who apply behavioral economics and experimental methods in health economic research to present and discuss their research papers. We welcome contributions on all topics within health economics applying experimental methods, be it laboratory or field...

New Challenges for Monetary and Fiscal Policy Posed by Financial Frictions - Lawrence J. Christiano (Northwestern University) This course will address various new challenges for fiscal and monetary policy. Most of these reflect the increased recognition of the economic importance of financial...

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...

This international workshop is designed to provide Ph.D. students in theoretical economics with an opportunity to present their research and to discuss new developments in their fields.

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and business cycles, international...

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...

Topics: - the functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment; - the impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation, including empirical studies on segmentation in the money markets of...