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...

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...

GES aims to explore the central values relevant to support and guide a sustainable and equitable economic development in the following four aspects: - Financial Regulation and Stability - Environmental Sustainability - Societal Development, Integration and Equality - Innovation and...

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

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...

Firms in International Trade - Kalina Manova (Stanford University) Day 1: Heterogeneous-Firm Trade Models Day 2: Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity in Trade Day 3: Product Quality in Trade Day 4: International Trade with Financial Frictions Day 5: Multinational Activity with Financial Frictions

Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva) The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics...

The main objective of the conference is to share new research in the fields of regional science and economic geography on the special topic “Infrastructure, Trade and Regional Development”. Like in the previous summer conferences, current empirical and theoretical contributions to other...