The seminar will provide an introduction to general economic equilibrium models and their construction using GAMS and MPSGE. No previous knowledge of GE modeling is assumed. The intended audience is economists and students who want to do policy analysis with real data and economists who are more...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economics and development. This year it will focus on the main analytical and empirical approaches to the study of the impact of international...

Topics: - The economics of basic scientific research, private and public - Social studies on scientists’ careers in university and public labs - The labour market for scientists - Science systems in Eastern Europe - Science systems in newly developed and developing countries - The geography of...

The 2007 Summer Seminar is an intensive course which is designed to document and discuss the historical precursors of the modern global financial system, the development of shared business practices, the impact of the process of globalization on domestic economies, its contribution to overall...

The Summer School offers academics, Post Docs, PhD students and experts from the finance and banking industry the unique opportunity to hear about the latest trends in computational finance and economics. Split into three modules, participants will learn about new paradigms in optimization and...

The subject of this year’s summer school is Contract Theory, with Applications to the Theory of the Firm and Corporate Finance. The school is targeted to Ph.D. students and young post-docs. Its major purpose is to provide a coherent view of advanced contract theory and apply it to topics in...

This course focuses on the following topics: discrete and continuous probability distributions joint, marginal and conditional distributions (conditional) expectation, variance, covariance, correlation, basic principles of Statistics, estimation of population parameters, properties of...

The topic of the 2nd Advanced Summer School is on "Economic Growth and Empirics". The lectures of the Summer School will provide an up-to-date coverage of the main theoretical models and econometric methods used in the analysis of economic growth and convergence.

For one week, young economists from different countries meet with renowned faculty at the Training Center of the Bundesbank for an intensive week of learning and interaction. The faculty will give lectures on topics of current research interest. In afternoon sessions, the participants will have...

The School consists of three two-week sessions. Each session offers a variety of courses. Courses run for either two weeks, one week, or three days over a weekend. Courses consist of at least one lecture and a practical session daily. Most courses deal with techniques of data collection,...