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...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Gino Gancia, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) consists of five three-hour lecture on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. The objective of this course (Prof. Volker Wieland, Goethe University of Frankfurt) is to provide an introduction to the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy making with practical...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Carl E. Walsh, University of California) focuses on the theoretical foundations of monetary economics and their policy implications, with some attention paid to the models’...

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...

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in assessing the role of technological change within the context of climate policy and in developing models that promote a better understanding of linkages between climate strategies, induced technological change and...

Papers focusing on general equilibrium growth and models of large trading economies are welcome. The roles of financial stability, global and regional trade patterns, foreign direct investment, and international governance are of particular interest. Contributions on other specialized topics,...

The recent global financial crisis has shown that one needs to reconsider traditional ways of analysing monetary policy and include new elements, such as financial frictions, the use of unconventional monetary policies, the interaction of monetary and fiscal policies, and the relationship...

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...

Topics: - entrepreneurship and “the entrepreneur” in modern theories of economic growth - long-run relationship between entrepreneurship, economic growth and productivity - knowledge context and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities - regional variation in new firm formation:...