The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. - Macroeconomics in Open Economies – Part I Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge) - Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Part II Philip Lane (Trinity College Dublin)

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Eric van Wincoop(University of Virginia) The class focuses on models of international asset trade and capital flows, contagion of financial shocks across countries, the determination of...

Cédric Tille (Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies) The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics that have been prominent areas of...

Topics: - Transfer of energy efficient technologies - Impact of globalization on energy and environmental efficiency - Barriers for successful environmental technology transfer - Pollution effect of globalizationTransfer of energy efficient technologies

The Global Economic Symposium (GES) aims to provide a new collaborative setting to analyze the world’s most important economic problems, create shared visions of the future and formulate innovative strategies to achieve these visions. GES Themes: - Preserving our Natural Capital - Renewing...

Charles Engel (University of Wisconsin) This course will study international macroeconomic integration and the implications for monetary and exchange rate policies. It will balance both empirical studies and theory. Recommended readings are marked below with a ‘*’. There are nine sections of...

The course will be based on Philipe Aghion’s new book "The Economics of Growth" Lecture 1: The Schumpeterian Growth Model Lecture 2: Convergence and Wage Inequality Lecture 3: Competition, Entry and Trade Lecture 4: Appropriate Growth Policy and Education Lecture 5: Environment and...

Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Lecture I: Overview, intertemporal models of the current account, global current account imbalances. Challenges to the canonical model. Lecture II: Sovereign Risk and Investment for Emerging markets. Lecture III: Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy; Speculative...

Focal Challenges 2008: - Dealing with Climate Change - Reconstructing the Welfare Systems Essential Issues 2008: - Creating and Disseminating Knowledge, - Creating Security, - Spreading the Benefits of Globalization, - Tackling Inequality, - Promoting Social Cohesion, - Promoting Health.

Geert Bekaert (Columbia University) Outline: Session 1: • Globalization and its Effects on the Economy • The Case for International Diversification Session 2: • Global Asset allocation • Review Mean Variance Optimization • CAPM • Home Bias Session 3: • Currencies • Optimal...