Prof. Tito Boeri – Bocconi University, Milan The course will focus on the macroeconomic implications of institutions regulating imperfect labour markets. In particular, we will cover the following set of institutions: employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, active labour...

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Agénor and P.J. Montiel, 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 2008) and in part on some recent papers, published and unpublished.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

Conference Theme: After the financial crisis: Where do we go from here?

Hillel Rapoport (Center for International Development, Harvard University) The course will focus on international and development economics issues and will only address labor economics issues marginally. Content: Day One: International migration today – the global picture. Day two: The...

Professor Jakob de Haan (University of Groningen) Lectures: 1. Governance of the ECB 2. Monetary policy of the ECB 3. Communication policies of the ECB 4. On the need for fiscal rules in a monetary union 5. Other driving forces of fiscal policy in the EU

Prof. Lawrence J. Christiano ( Northwestern University) Tentative course outline: 1. Structural Vector Autoregressions 2. Estimation of a DSGE model 3. Monetary policy analysis of DSGE models 4. Areas for further development of DSGE models 5. Applications of monetary policy analysis with DSGE models

The aim of the conference is to bring together high quality research on the question how the labor market propagates and amplifies macroeconomic shocks. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. We are particularly interested in papers that go beyond recalibrating the standard...

Steven Ongena (CentER-Tilburg University and CEPR) The course will discuss current topics in banking and finance, with an emphasis on theory, empirical methods, applications and results. The course consists of five half-days of in-class-work. Topic 1: INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: BANK –...

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

Thierry Mayer (University Paris I) 1 – Why is gravity so universal? 2 – Border effects 3 – Trade with heterogeneity: gravity still rules 4 - The history of thought and facts in economic geography 5 - Interregional Trade and Market Size 6 - The Core–Periphery Structure 7 - Intermediate...