RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum of junior and senior scholars discussing cutting-edge research in economic growth, trade, and economic history dealing with economic development disparities across and within countries. This workshop aims to...

The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

This joint workshop with will focus on how market integration - both internal and global - shapes the structural transformation process in developing countries. In particular, we are interested in the role of agriculture and connections between agriculture and on economic development. Specific...

Co-authors: Domenico Giannone (Amazon.com) and Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) We study the relationship between bank capital ratios and the distribution of future real GDP growth. Growth in the aggregate bank capital ratio corresponds to a smaller left tail of GDP—smaller...

Themes: - Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution; - Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments; - Productivity Impacts of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from New Zealand; - New-Keynesian Trade:...

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Virtual Workshop “Towards Sustainable Growth” to be held via Zoom on 10 December 2021. RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum...

This year marks the 3rd Global Innovative Growth Forum (GIGF) with the theme of “New Challenges for Innovative Growth in th Post-Pandemic Era”. Continuing the discussion from last year’s GIGF theme, “Innovative and Sustainable Growth in the Post COVID-19 Era”, the upcoming forum will...

Theme 1: Globalization, Trade in Services and Intangibles: Conceptual Challenges and Measurement Issues; Theme 2: The Potential and Challenges of Big Data and other Alternative Data in the Production of Prices, National Accounts, and Measures of Economic Well-Being; Theme 3: Time Use, Welfare...

This course provides a self-contained set of lectures to bring PhD students and practitioners up to speed in the area of empirical research using firm-level data. The course starts with an introduction to models of firm dynamics and innovation. Next, attention is paid to estimation of...

On the occasion of commemorating the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Visegrad Group (Visegrad Four), Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the central bank of Hungary organizes the V4 Central Bank Governors Conference on July 15th 2021 with the theme “Gradual Transition into a Greener Economy –...