The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

Topics: - entrepreneurship and “the entrepreneur” in modern theories of economic growth - long-run relationship between entrepreneurship, economic growth and productivity - knowledge context and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities - regional variation in new firm formation:...