The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Tommaso Monacelli (Università Bocconi, IGIER, and CEPR) 1. Financial Imperfections and the Macroeconomy: Background Partial Equilibrium Models 2. Credit Market Imperfections and the...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich) This course consists of ve times three-hour lectures covering research topics in the area of innovation, fi nancial development and...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Course Summary: The course (Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago) will examine the global credit crisis, including the deep underlying causes, the more immediate fragilities in the financial...

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...

Steven Ongena (CentER-Tilburg University and CEPR) The course will discuss current topics in banking and finance, with an emphasis on theory, empirical methods, applications and results. The course consists of five half-days of in-class-work. Topic 1: INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: BANK –...

Marvin Goodfriend (Carnegie Mellon University) Topics: 1) The New Neoclassical Synthesis; Overview and Implications for Optimal Monetary Policy 2) International Aspects of Monetary Policy 3) Monetary History of the United States 4) Central Bank Lending 5) The Future of Monetary Policy 6) Banking...