The topic of the 13th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Financial Supervision in an Uncertain World’. The recent turmoil on global financial markets and the following recession have raised concerns that the current financial supervisory system does not suffice anymore. This can mainly be...

ESSLE is designed to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term...

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE) command wide support among macroeconomists as a modeling methodology. In addition, they are widely used by policy institutions for both policy assessments and forecasting exercises. Nevertheless, there is much less agreement about the details...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economics and development. This year it will focus on the main analytical and empirical approaches to the link between international trade and...

The scientific committee invites both theoretical and empirical work related to the following aspects: - Mapping Global Product Trade - Product Heterogeneity and Industry Dynamics - Product Trade, Pricing to Market, and Pass-Through

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...