The idea is to create a forum of junior and senior scholars discussing cutting-edge research in economic growth, trade, and economic history dealing with economic development disparities across and within countries. This workshop aims to share and discuss the most recent and innovative...

Over the last few decades we have seen a lot of progress in the sustainability debate and practice. A growing number of companies are taking steps to be more responsible in how they treat their employees, communities and the planet. International organizations and governments are stepping up...

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies,...

The GESIS Methods Seminar 2020 will be moved online! Stay tuned for exact dates and an updated detailed schedule of our first virtual methods seminar. Es werden in drei deutschsprachigen Seminaren praxisnahe Einführungen in die uni- und bivariate Statistik und in unterschiedliche...

Topics: - Modeling and forecasting commodity prices and quantities. - Macroeconomic implications and welfare effects of commodity price fluctuations - Monetary or fiscal policy responses to commodity price fluctuations - Fiscal budgeting and hedging policies for commodity‐producing countries -...

It is one year since the renowned Chilean economist, and winner of the "Alternative Nobel Prize", Professor Manfred Max-Neef, passed away. The Institute of Economics at the Universidad Austral de Chile (Max-Neef's main academic residency until his death), is organising a workshop to honor his...

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak this course is postponed to 2021. The importance of developing appropriate quantitative models and methods for risk-assessment, climate-impact scenarios, energy policy, house market prices, and big data analyses generally are well understood in the academic and...

This workshop has been cancelled.

AFiD Workshop 2020 – CANCELLED

The GESIS Spring Seminar (formerly ZA Spring Seminar) offers three consecutive one-week courses in advanced methods of quantitative data analysis for Social Scientists. Week 1: Fundamentals of Data Analysis with Python; Week 2: A Practical Introduction to Machine Learning in Python; Week 3:...