The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics and...

Industrial Policy and Economic Development - Dr. Adnan Seric, UNIDO The course has three objectives. First, students acquire a thorough knowledge and understanding of key bodies of literature in the field of industrial policy and economic development, including a sense of the leading debates...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Institutions and Development - James Robinson (Harvard University) The main topic of this course is recent developments in political economy, particularly the political economy of...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Jaume Ventura (University Pompeu Fabra and CREI, Barcelona) This course examines the basicmodels of economic growth in open economies, emphasizing both their theoretical foundations and their...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. The main topic of this course (Professor James A. Robinson, Harvard University) is recent developments in political economy, particularly the political economy of institutions. Much recent...

The course will be based in part on Development Macroeconomics (P.R. Agénor and P.J. Montiel, 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 2008) and in part on some recent papers, published and unpublished. It will consist of five sessions: • Session 1. Infrastructure and Growth • Session 2. Public...