Die Themen der Panels: Panel 1: Nach dem Rheinischen Kapitalismus? Ökonomishce Ressourcen und institutionelle Bedingungen für Teilhabe Panel 2: Sozial ist, was Arbeit schafft? Teilhabemuster im Umbruch und neue Unsicherheiten Panel 3: Bevölkerungspolitik oder Gesellschaftspolitik?...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading scholars and young researchers working on topics related to personnel and labor economics at the intersection of economics, psychology and biology. Acknowledging the increasing importance of neurobiological and neuropsychological approaches to...

The strongest, but also most volatile, factor affecting risk attitudes is loss aversion (“losses loom larger than gains”). It was given its proper place in decision theory by Daniel Kahneman. Most risks we face are new, with no past statistics available (ambiguity). This two-day conference...

In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, resource reallocation and adjustment costs, productivity, information and communication technology, R&D, market competition, exit and entry dynamics, transition and development, labor issues, environment, corporate governance, trade, and linked...

The theme of the conference is "Identification & Inference: Macroeconometric/ Microeconometric Perspectives".

This course covers the core econometric ideas and empirical modeling strategies that I see as most useful for empirical micro. The main theoretical ideas are illustrated with examples. Our text is Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion by Angrist and Pischke (Princeton...

Course Offering Summer 2009: - Causal Inference and Program Evaluation - Dynamic Panel Data Models and Non-linear Panel Data Models - Dynamic Panel Data Models - Practical Session - Dynamic Micro Models and Policy Evaluation: Theory and Empirical Applications - Dynamic Micro Models - Practical...

The program will consist of invited speakers and contributed papers on a wide range of both theoretical and applied areas of econometrics, microeconomics and macroeconomics.

We have chosen "New Directions" as the conference theme. Submissions that explore new directions in experimental economics are highly encouraged (e.g., novel approaches to experimental philosophy; experiments and ACE modeling; new directions in experimental politics or experiments and genomics.)...