The main theme for the 23nd Annual RENT Conference is: Entrepreneurial Growth of the Firm Submissions of any aspect of entrepreneurship and small business development are welcome, but preferably concerning the following issues: 1. Entrepreneurship and Growth 2. Networks and Entrepreneurship. 3....

The ECSB-doctoral seminar is a one day event in conjunction with the yearly RENT conference: “Research in Entrepreneurship”. The Doctoral Seminar has a successful tradition at RENT. To encourage the emergence of new ideas, communication and dialogue between students and teachers of different...

For the first time this year, a Policy Forum will be held on the day preceding the main RENT conference. The pre-Conference Policy Forum aims to generate an exchange of views and experiences between researchers, policy makers and practitioners on contemporary policy-related topics. By focusing...

This course will study the interaction between liquidity, asset prices and aggregate economic activity over the business cycle. The course begins with alternative theoretical approaches to liquidity which emphasize limited commitment and limited market participation. We use these frameworks to...

The course will review the foundations of the new neoclassical synthesis (new Keynesian) model of monetary policy, and the nature of welfare-maximizing interest rate policy in the new synthesis model. It will address the determination of the exchange rate, the trade balance, international...

This course will examine standard economic theory; evidence of anomalies in standard theory, and behavioral theories designed to explain those anomalies. We will start by developing the choice theoretic foundations of modern decision theory: objective and subjective probabilities; Bayesian...

This course covers the core econometric ideas and empirical modeling strategies that I see as most useful for empirical micro. The main theoretical ideas are illustrated with examples. Our text is Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion by Angrist and Pischke (Princeton...