The course addresses the following questions: What are the advantages and limitations of experimental economics? How important are deviations from the assumptions of full rationality and strict self-interest in determining outcomes of economic interaction?

The main objective is to introduce the main tools in the field of applied economics, with applications to the economics of crime, political economy, and labor economics.

This comprehensive course offers theoretical and historical insights into the evolution of Europe. We start by tracing the continent’s emergence from being a technological and economic backwater at the end of the first millennium to being able to match the advanced Muslim and Chinese...

This course will provide an introduction to modern Bayesian methods in econometrics. Bayesian methods can be applied to any field of economics. The examples and exercises offered during the course will be drawn from various topics, including micro- and macroeconometrics, and finance. The main...

The course focuses on work organizations, both business organizations (private firms) and organizations within the public sector. Organization theory is an interdisciplinary field and the course draws on perspectives from different social science disciplines. Both, the so-called rational and...

This course introduces students to modeling policy choices in a dynamic setting. It starts with applications of dynamic programming techniques to incentive problems, both for the design of policies, their credibility. We then characterize equilibrium when policies themselves are endogenous and...

The notion of The Good Organization can be approached from a variety of different conceptual and normative positions and generate discussions about a range of contemporary organizational phenomena. We encourage the submission of sub-theme proposals for this Colloquium, which seek to explore and...

The purpose of this meeting is to provide an opportunity for the best labor scholars in the Nordic countries to get together and discuss their work. The meeting will contain both contributed and invited papers.

The Urban Economics Association (UEA) invites the submission of high quality papers dealing with the economics of cities, housing, real state, local public good provision, and the distribution of economic activity in space. The Urban Economics Association seeks to promote participation and...

This seminar gives the participant a thorough understanding of the concepts and theories in the field of organization design, including its theoretical foundation and future directions. Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between organization theory and organization design,...