Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. - Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge) - Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Part II Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)

Europa ist in einer anhaltenden Krise und steht vor ausserordentlich grossen Herausforderungen. Wie geht es in der EU weiter? Zudem zeichnet sich ab, dass auch das bilaterale Verhältnis zwischen der Schweiz und der EU vor wichtigen Entscheidungen auf beiden Seiten steht. Was sind die nächsten...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Eric van Wincoop(University of Virginia) The class focuses on models of international asset trade and capital flows, contagion of financial shocks across countries, the determination of...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po, Paris) Gravity: 1 – Why is gravity so universal? 2 – Border effects 3 – Trade with heterogeneity: gravity still rules Geography: 4 - The history of thought...

Cédric Tille (Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies) The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics that have been prominent areas of...

Das 18. Europa Forum Luzern vermittelt einen Überblick über die erkennbaren Trends im weltpolitischen System und ihre Einflüsse auf staatliche Souveränität und nationale Interessen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die aktuelle Lage der „schweizerischen Souveränität" anhand der...

Topics: - Transfer of energy efficient technologies - Impact of globalization on energy and environmental efficiency - Barriers for successful environmental technology transfer - Pollution effect of globalizationTransfer of energy efficient technologies

The Global Economic Symposium (GES) aims to provide a new collaborative setting to analyze the world’s most important economic problems, create shared visions of the future and formulate innovative strategies to achieve these visions. GES Themes: - Preserving our Natural Capital - Renewing...