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...

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...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Roberto Rigobon (MIT) August 5-9, 2013 - Basic tools of open macroeconomics: Intertemporal approach to the current account - International Micro...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. In this seminar (Professor Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and NBER) we will examine how global economic integration affects labor markets with emphasis on mechanisms related to global...

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Agénor and P.J. Montiel, 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 2008) and in part on some recent papers, published and unpublished.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

Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin) This course will study international macroeconomic integration and the implications for monetary and exchange rate policies. It will balance both empirical studies and theory. Recommended readings are marked below with a ‘*’. There are nine sections of...