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...

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. 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...

Preliminary Programme: Session 1 - Firm exports and multinational activity under credit constraints - Multinational enterprises and credit constraints Session 2 - The role of bond finance in firms' survival during the Asian crisis - Financial Crisis, Trade Credit and Export Performance: Evidence...

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Agénor and P.J. Montiel, 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 2008) and in part on some recent papers, published and unpublished.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...