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...

Industrial Policy and Economic Development - Dr. Adnan Seric, UNIDO The course has three objectives. First, students acquire a thorough knowledge and understanding of key bodies of literature in the field of industrial policy and economic development, including a sense of the leading debates...

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

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. Economic Growth - David Weil (Brown University) This course will consist of five lectures, each lasting three hours. Day 1: Facts, Framework, and Measurement Day 2: Cross-country regressions...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

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...