The aim of this summer school is to introduce young macroeconomists to experimental approaches of research. Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non-experimental "field" data. However, modern, micro-founded macroeconomic models can also be tested in the laboratory, and...

In More Developed Countries in the last 40 years, many national governments have claimed to be decentralising power to regional and local levels of the state, and the latter in turn often claim to be decentralising power to civil society, ‘communities’ and neighbourhoods or to ‘the local...