The aim of the conference is to gather high quality recent research that explores the causes and consequences of sovereign default from three different, complementary perspectives: theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, macro-finance modeling, as well as economic history.

The purpose of the workshop is to identify policies and reforms that may suitably support the recovery from the crisis, also through empirical characterization of how institutional factors and past reforms have shaped country-specific crisis experiences.

The organising committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on small business financing and its importance for the real economy. Topics: - Availability of credit for small businesses and firms' competitiveness; - Financial deregulation...

The financial crisis has brought to light the evolution in banking models over the past decade, and triggered discussions on regulatory intervention on the perimeter of bank activities in the US and in Europe. The conference aims to examine the extent to which banking models and banking...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University) Lectures: 1) The New Keynesian model. 2) Introducing financial frictions into the New Keynesian DSGE Model. 3) Implications of the zero lower...

With unemployment rising and potential growth faltering, labor market reform has become more necessary than ever in OECD countries. Divergences remain however vivid regarding the direction of reforms: Which labor contracts? What role for labor taxation? Which minimum wages? What role for labor...

The recent financial crisis has dramatically expanded the perimeter of the financial regulation. This conference aims to provoke a fruitful debate between academics and practitioners, by bringing together state of the art research on the new domains of financial regulation, and the new tools...

The workshop will bring together academic scholars and economists from central banks and international institutions. The program will cover the role of financial and macroeconomic factors in oil price dynamics, forecasting methods of its future evolution, and the role of oil exports in the...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Topics: - Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Organization of Production - The Political Economy of Trade Policy - Non-Homothetic Demand and International...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Dr. St. Reitz (Institute for the World Economy Kiel) Topics 1. Basic econometric concepts 2. Introduction to RATS programming 3. The classical linear regression model 4. Modelling...