The leading idea behind the “ZEI Academy in Comparative Regional Integration” is the creation of a sustainable platform for discussion and mutual learning on issues of regional integration worldwide. The objective of this distinctive initiative is to strengthen young academics’ knowledge...

Topics: Consumer heterogeneity, with applications studying business cycles and their welfare costs; the origins and evolution of consumer wealth inequality; asset pricing; the effects of fiscal policy; the effects of monetary policy; labor markets; earnings inequality; family formation and...

Das ZEI wird vom 9. bis zum 22. September 2007, in Kooperation mit dem DAAD und mit Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amtes, eine europaweit einzigartige Sommerakademie in vergleichender regionaler Integration ausrichten. Junge Wissenschaftler aus Afrika, Asien, Lateinamerika und der Karibik werden am...

Lecture Topics: Asset prices and macroeconomics, identification with sign restrictions, new open economy macroeconomic models, exchange rates in dynamic general equilibrium models, models of exchange rate pass-through, open economy models of the current account