The conference aims at bringing together scholars from all over the world to present papers and debate ideas in a wide range of thematic areas, covering: a) economic issues: general theory and policy, from both interdisciplinary and core epistemological areas; qualitative and quantitative...

The aim of this workshop is to bring together senior and junior researchers to present and discuss original research examining the link between health and the labor market. Topics: - Health and labor market outcomes - Determinants of sickness absence - Health insurance and the labor market -...

The financial crisis and the European debt crisis in the euro have increased the interest in the early detection of financial constraints, as credit crunches affect investment decisions of firms and saving decisions of households. Economic tendency surveys and surveys in general are one...

Original papers subject to high academic standards and preferably with important policy or practical implications are invited, for example, on the following topics, though not restricted to them: - The growth an business cycle effects of shifting demographics - Demographics and the financial...

The Kieler Konjunkturgespräche (KKG) is the Kiel Institute’s flagship conference on international business cycle analysis. Here we share our research work and discuss global macroeconomic issues with other forecasters, policy-makers, and business leaders.

The conference will focus on recent challenges for macroeconomic policies and structural reform design, with an emphasis on micro-macro linkages. Issues of particular interest include the links between international trade and competitiveness, the implications of dispersed productivity growth,...

The aim of the conference is to discuss new modeling approaches and novel empirical evidence on heterogeneity in the behaviour of firms, households and financial intermediaries, and on policies aimed to address economic challenges arising in specific markets, regions or group of agents but...

Referenten: - Prof. Jan-Egbert Sturm, ETH Zürich, Direktor KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, «Die Welt schottet sich ab: Aussichten für die Schweizer Wirtschaft» - Prof. Simon J. Evenett, Universität St. Gallen - SIAW - Schweizerisches Institut für Aussenwirtschaft und Angewandte...

Conference Programm: - Payments, credit and asset prices, - Mortgage design in an equilibrium model of the housing market, - Life below zero: bank lending under negative policy rates, - Social learning and selective attention, - The tail that wags the economy: beliefs and persistent...

Topics: - structural and reduced-form models of the inflation process, - causes of inflation persistence, - measurement of inflation and understanding inflation dynamics: the use of micro price data and other big data, - inflation through the lens of (global) Phillips curves and the...