New Challenges for Monetary and Fiscal Policy Posed by Financial Frictions - Lawrence J. Christiano (Northwestern University) This course will address various new challenges for fiscal and monetary policy. Most of these reflect the increased recognition of the economic importance of financial...

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...

Topics: - the relationship between the stances of monetary policies, international capital flows and exchange rates; - divergent monetary policies and their implication for global financial stability; - spillovers of major central bank policies to other parts of the world, and the costs and...

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

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

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...