In recent years scientific publishing has changed rapidly in response to the growth of the internet. Thanks to the internet, open access to research and data has become much more common. Apart from the increase in access to old forms of research, the internet has given rise to new forms of...

Labor Market Consequences of Globalization - Gordon Hanson (University of California at San Diego) Overview: The course will examine recent empirical and theoretical literature on the labor market consequences of international trade and foreign investment in advanced and emerging economies.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. - Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge) - Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Part II Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Labor Markets and Distribution - Giuseppe Bertola (EDHEC Business School) The course studies how the structure of labor markets determines employment and unemployment outcomes and, together...

Europa ist in einer anhaltenden Krise und steht vor ausserordentlich grossen Herausforderungen. Wie geht es in der EU weiter? Zudem zeichnet sich ab, dass auch das bilaterale Verhältnis zwischen der Schweiz und der EU vor wichtigen Entscheidungen auf beiden Seiten steht. Was sind die nächsten...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Eric van Wincoop(University of Virginia) The class focuses on models of international asset trade and capital flows, contagion of financial shocks across countries, the determination of...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. In this seminar (Professor Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and NBER) we will examine how global economic integration affects labor markets with emphasis on mechanisms related to global...

Cédric Tille (Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies) 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 that have been prominent areas of...

Das 18. Europa Forum Luzern vermittelt einen Überblick über die erkennbaren Trends im weltpolitischen System und ihre Einflüsse auf staatliche Souveränität und nationale Interessen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die aktuelle Lage der „schweizerischen Souveränität" anhand der...

Topics: - Transfer of energy efficient technologies - Impact of globalization on energy and environmental efficiency - Barriers for successful environmental technology transfer - Pollution effect of globalizationTransfer of energy efficient technologies