Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Conference Tracks: - Economic growth and environment mitigation - Economic growth and poverty - Transforming economies for sustainable growth - Global partnerships and sustainable development

The seminar introduces the participants to the methods, techniques and theories commonly used in their research area. It also offers possibilities for young researchers to get in contact with their peers, to explore new avenues of thinking, to learn collectively and to exchange ideas in a very...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

Research in the MG programme covers long-run macroeconomic issues including: - Economic growth; - Inequality; - Political economy; - Structural change; - Macroeconomic aspects of development.

World Forum for a Sustainable Society is inviting scientists, researchers, educators and entrepreneurs to share ideas, theoretical developments and good practices in order to find ways of creating a sustainable society. MAIN STREAMS OF THE FORUM I. Economic theory of sustainability in societies...

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

The theme of the Convention is “Financial Governance and Economic Growth”. The context for elaboration of this theme is ASEAN economic integration, with the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community this year as an important milestone. This focus encapsulates the intersection of three major...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses selected empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The 2015 conference theme will focus on reforming the financial system in order to divert resources from speculative activities, cause of growing inequalities and instability, to productive investments able to foster smart, sustainable and inclusive societies. The conference aims to provide an...