The scientific and societal challenges for agricultural economists are huge. As scientists we need to create and share insights on how to transform agri-food systems into sustainable and resilient systems that increase prosperity in Europe and across the globe. The XVII Congress aims at...

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...

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...

everal European markets are characterised by oversupply and low farmer prices, with society and policy makers discussing sustainability, environment, the relation between food and health and ethical topics, such as animal welfare and food waste. In addition, current value chains are under...

The Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) is now accepting submissions of papers examining the organization and operation of customs and other border agencies as well as specific trade facilitation initiatives and their impact along the economic and institutional dimensions. Both...

Topics: - Economics of Farming in areas with particular spatial agronomic characteristics and constraints - Economic Issues associated with specifically spatial policies such as Less Favoured Areas/Areas of Natural Constraint and The Economic Development of Rural Areas - Spatial Impact of Policy...

Topics: - the relationship between the stances of monetary policies, international capital flows and exchange rates; - divergent monetary policies and their implication for global financial stability; - spillovers of major central bank policies to other parts of the world, and the costs and...

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...

Globalisation and Labour Markets - David Dorn (University of Zurich) This seminar examines how global economic integration affects labor markets in the United States and in Western Europe, with emphasis on mechanisms related to international trade and offshoring, adoption of new technologies,...

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy - Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi University) Overview: 1. Evidence 2. Credit Market Imperfections and the General Equilibrium: Firms 3. Credit Market Imperfections and the General Equilibrium: Households 4. Credit frictions and Labor Markets 5. Credit Frictions...