Topics: - Static microsimulation models, including modelling of all kinds of specific taxes and transfers, and fiscal and social policy modelling (in particular modelling of child care expenses and child tax benefits) - Dynamic microsimulation models - Spatial microsimulation models -...

The importance of empirical methods applied to micro (household or firm) data, and the use of experimental methods to obtain new insights into micro behavior, has been emphasized most prominently by the Nobel Prizes in Economics to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000, and to Vernon Smith...

This session will bring together scholars undertaking theory-based empirical research in all fields of microeconomics - Labor Economics, Industrial Organization (IO), Public Finance, Environmental Economics and Urban Economics. Recent advances in econometric techniques and increases in...

This course will present the methodology of econometric estimation of economic efficiency. We will examine the stochastic frontier model as an econometric extension of the classical microeconomic theory of production and cost at the individual producer level. Basic models for production, cost...

The conference work is organized in the following six workshops: 1.Monetary and fiscal policy 2.International economic policy 3.Labor and social policy 4.Regional policy 5.Sectoral economic policy 6.Entrepreneurship policy

On March 10-11, 2006 CESifo will organise a conference in Munich for all members of the CESifo Research Network with an interest in the area of Applied Microeconomics. The purpose of the conference is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to...

PANEL A: EFFECTS OF FRAMING ON BEHAVIOR (Chair: A. Ziegelmeyer) PANEL B: HETEROGENEOUS PREFERENCES AND GROUP DECISIONS (Chair: Sven Fisher) PANEL C: ENDOGENEOUS PROCESSES (Chair: Cristoph Vanberg & Torsten Weiland)

The purpose of the workshop is to promote the stimulation and dissemination of experimental economics research in Finland. To this end, the workshop includes keynote lectures by internationally distinguished specialists in the field. It will also provide PhD students and researchers from Finland...

Topics: Rationalizability in Auctions Folk theorem for Games with Private Almost-Perfect Monitoring Hierarchies of Belief and Interim Rationalizability Dense Types Finite-Order Implications of Any Equilibrium On the Trade-off Between Deficit And Inefficiency and The Double Auction with a Fixed...

The meetings will cover most any topic in economics and finance as well as most interrelated subject matter. As in the past years, The Academy will again offer a Teacher Training Program (TTP). This unique program explores and encourages different teaching methodologies and techniques. All...