The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

Themes: - Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution; - Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments; - Productivity Impacts of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from New Zealand; - New-Keynesian Trade:...

The RIDGE December Forum aims to favor the spread of high quality research in eco-nomics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers and policymakers.

We are looking for papers focusingon issues related to capital flows, monetary and macroprudentialpolicies, exchange rates, international reserve accumulation, sovereign debt, and international spillovers.Papers in other topics of international macroeconomics and macroeconomics are also welcome.

International Trade: Gravity Rules - Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po, Paris, CEPII and CEPR) Syllabus: Day 1 : Introduction Lecture 1: Gravity is nontrivial and true. Lecture 2: First foundations for gravity equations Day 2 : 21st Century Gravity Lecture 3: Ricardian models, theory-consistent...

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.

Exchange-Rate Economics - Lucio Sarno (City University, London) This five-day course provides an overview of selected topics in exchange rate economics. The topics covered include: (i) the interest rate parity conditions that underlie exchange rate economics, with a focus on understanding the...

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. International Trade: Gravity and Geography - Gianmarco Ottaviano (London School of Economics) The aim of the course is to take students to the frontier of theoretical research in geography...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Firms in International Trade - Marc Melitz (Department of Economics, Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently...