The Kiel Institute will continue its successful Advanced Studies in International Economic Policy Research with a new program starting in August 2016 :

Macroeconomics in Open Economies  –  Roberto Rigobon (MIT)

Financial Markets and the Macro-Economy  –  Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton)

Debt Crises and Macro-Prudential Policy  –  Enrique Mendoza (Pennsylvania)

Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice  –  Volker Wieland (Frankfurt)

Exchange-Rate Economics  –  Lucio Sarno (London)

Firms in International Trade  –  Marc Melitz (Harvard)

Trade Policy Analysis with Gravity Models  –  Yoto Yotov (Drexel)

Economic Growth  –  Gino Gancia (Barcelona)

Economic Development  –  Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford) 

The 10 month program addresses in particular M.A. graduates who are interested in a career at international organisations, ministries and central banks, financial corporations, research institutes and development institutions, or who wish to improve their chances of admission to PhD programs at renowned universities.

The program is also relevant for economists with some years of professional experience who would like to keep up with recent academic developments in the field, and for PhD candidates who are enrolled at universities without an own PhD program (or who would like to attend the above courses as a complement to their local PhD program). Participation in selected courses of the program is possible.

Detailed information on the program is provided on the Kiel Institute´s website

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/education/advanced-studies-program/advanced-studies-program/view?set_language=en

We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network.

Prof. Gouranga Das (Hanyang University) His primary research fields are trade and development, computable general equilibrium modeling, technological change, and outsourcing.

Prof. Carl Davidson (Michigan State University) His research falls into two general areas: the influence of labor market structure on issues related to international trade and the development of models of oligopolistic behavior.

Dr. Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (The Federal Reserve Board) His research interests include international trade, international finance, international macroeconomics and public economics.

The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page.

Bartelme, Dominick and Yuriy Gorodnichenko (2015) “Linkages and Economic Development”

Boehm, Johannes (2015) “The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity”

Bove, Vincenzo, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Petros G. Sekeris (2015)  “Political repression in autocratic regimes”

Glaeser, Edward L., Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto and Yimei Zou (2015)  “Urban Networks: Spreading the Flow of Goods, People, and Ideas”  

Peng, Shin-Kun, Raymond Riezman and Ping Wang (2014) “Intermediate Goods Trade, Technology Choice and Productivity”

“The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton–one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty–tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today’s disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind…” [Publisher’s book website]

Author’s book website

Reviews / Comments

Book review by David N. Weil in Journal of Economic Literature, 53(1), 102–114, March 2015.

Book review by Bill Gates, April 2014.

Book review by Kenneth Rogoff in Project Syndicate, January 2014.

Book review by David Leonhardt in The New York Times, December 2013.

Book review by Uwe E. Reinhardt in The New York Times, November 2013.

In sickness and in health by The Economist, October 2013.

Book review by Fred Andrews in  The New York Times, October 2013.

Book review by Edward Hadas in Reuters, October 2013.

Book review by Clive Crook in Bloomberg, October 2013.

Book review by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha in Mint, October 2013.

Book review by Johm McDermott in Financial Times, October 2013.

Book review by Konrad Yakabuski in Globe and Mail, October 2013.

Book review by Charan Singh in Business Standard, October 2013.

Book review by Zack Beauchamp in Think Progress, October 2013

Book review by Kitty Stewart in Times Higher Education, October 2013

The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page.

Handley, Kyle and Nuno Limao (2014) “Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S.”

Lashkaripour, Ahmad (2015) “Beyond Gravity: the Composition of Multilateral Trade Flows”

Leibovici, Fernando (2015) “Financial Development and International Trade”  

Lugovskyy, Volodymyr and Alexandre Skiba (2015) “Positive and Negative Effects of Distance on Export Prices”

We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network.

Prof. Christian Robert Ahlin (Michigan State University) His research interests are in micro-finance, finance and development, matching and group formation, corruption and development, inequality, and industrial organization.

Prof. Dominick Bartelme (University of Michigan) His research interests are international trade, economic geography, and economic growth.

Prof. Christian Bogmans (University of Birmingham) His main research interests are in the fields of environmental and energy economics, and international trade.

Prof. Michael Callen (Harvard University) His research fields are development economics, political economy, and experimental economics

Prof. Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University) Her research examines the political and economic mechanisms affecting armed conflict, corruption, and economic development.

Saad Gulzar (New York University) His research interests are in political economy of development, governance, and technology.

Dr. Réka Juhász (Princeton University) Her research interests are in international trade, economic history, and  development and growth.

Gaurav Khanna (University of Michigan) His research focuses on education policy, high skill immigration, infrastructure, and public-works programs and conflict.

Dr. Tim Larsen (Vanderbilt University) His fields of interest are economic history, labor, development, and political economy

Dr. Stephan Litschig (The Institute for Economic Analysis) His research interests are development economics, public economics, political economics, and micro-econometrics.

Prof. Mary E. Lovely (Syracuse University) Her research interests are in international economics, and public economics.

Prof. Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University) His research interests are in international trade, political economy, and development economics.

Prof. Rahul Mukherjee (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies) His broad areas of research are international macroeconomics, and finance.

Prof. Lourenço Paz (Baylor University) His research focuses on how international trade affect developing countries.

Prof. Thorsten Rogall (University of British Columbia) His recent work in progress are on the topics of income inequality and conflict, organized violence and voting, and community meetings.

Prof. Georg Schaur (University of Tennessee) His publications are in the filed of international economics, economic education, and environmental economics.

Annual International Conference of the German Economic Association

Research Group on Development Economics

Hosted by Heidelberg University, 3-4 June 2016 in Heidelberg

***Keynote Speakers***

Jean-Phillipe Platteau
(Emeritus Professor, University of Namur and Centre for Research in Economic Development (CRED))

Philip Keefer
(Principal Economic Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank)

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics and provide a forum for exchange for researchers and practitioners.

Interested contributors are invited to fill a submission form on www.entwicklungsoekonomischer-ausschuss.de and upload their full anonymized paper before February 15th. Acceptance notes with detailed information will be sent by early April 2016. The conference will start in the afternoon of June 3, 2016 with a keynote speech and a reception for all participants. There will be a conference fee of Euro 50.

Local organizers:
Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher (Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics, Heidelberg University)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Klonner (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)

We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network.

Prof. Hamid Beladi (University of Texas at San Antonio) His research interests are the economics of migration of skilled and unskilled labor, international trade in technology, global outsourcing and bi-sourcing, exchange rate pass-through, and fraudulent financial practices.

Prof. Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University) His research fields are  international trade and labor economics.

Prof. Kishore Gawande (University of Texas at Austin) His research fields are econometrics, economic development, global sourcing, international business, and public policy.

Prof. John Gilbert (Utah State University) His research fields are international trade theory and policy, applied general equilibrium modeling, and development economics.

Prof. Peter Sandholt Jensen (University of Southern Denmark) His research interests are economic development, economic history, democratization, and public finance.

Dr. Ryan Monarch (Federal Reserve Board) His research interests are international trade, industrial organization, and the Chinese economy. 

Prof. Jayjit Roy (Appalachian State University) His primary research interest is in international trade.

Prof. Heiwai Tang (Johns Hopkins University) His research interests span a wide range of theoretical and empirical topics in international trade.