The course addresses the following questions: What are the advantages and limitations of experimental economics? How important are deviations from the assumptions of full rationality and strict self-interest in determining outcomes of economic interaction? It is argued that identifying...

In addition to mitigating climate change, adapting to its consequences will be an important challenge in the future. Priorities must be set when implementing adaptation measures, as societies are unable to implement all desirable measures at once due to scarce resources. Techniques that help to...

In this five-day course we discuss the experimental approach to studying the effects of communication in economic decision making. We review the state-of-the-art experimental research. Experts in the field will cover topics such as fake news, cheap talk, coordination problems, deception,...

Banking Summer School courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems. During the courses, the faculty are available to discuss research ideas and...

This course provides a state of the art overview of complex economic systems with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The leading paradigm in macroeconomics assumes that economic agents (households, firms, investors) are perfectly rational in making their decisions. Experimental and...

Banking Summer School courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems. During the courses, the faculty are available to discuss research ideas and...

The goal of the summer school is to deepen students’ understanding and knowledge of the field of experimental finance. In addition to the lectures students will select one of the lecture topics as their major and will participate in a group assignment designed by the lecturer of this topic...

Please note that the ILF Summer School is only offered in the German language.

Barcelona Summer School 2020 has been cancelled.

Topics: - Economic and financial governance of the EU: the institutional framework; - EMU economic issues: ECB monetary policy and sovereign debt sustainability; - The Banking Union: how institutions work in practice; - Developments in EU financial markets: CMU, financial integration, digital...