The Colloquium caters to Doctoral students interested in analytical (both theoretical and applied) methods for measuring, managing and mitigating risks. It is organized over four two-week sessions ...

The longitudinal German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) provides longitudinal data on about 30,000 individuals in Germany. The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) provides panel data from 19 ...

The Royal Economic Society (RES) has announced that Professor Imran Rasul (UCL) is confirmed as RES President for the upcoming year. Together with the announcement of Professor Rasul as President, the ...

The PhD in Quantitative Methods in Economics (QME) - entirely in English - provides excellent skills in the use of the most modern quantitative tools for economic analysis and economic policy analysis ...

The word "model" is used a lot in discussions about economics. However, economics courses often don’t spend a lot of time defining the word or what exactly it means. Rather, students usually end up ...

The workshop aims to bring together social scientists to discuss the most recent findings related to migration and integration, labor market and family outcomes of Ukrainian refugees, stayers and IDPs ...

Economist Biswo Nath Poudel has been appointed as the new governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central bank of Nepal, ending a prolonged discord within the ruling coalition of Nepal. The ...

The Overlapping Generations model, often called the “OLG model”, is a cornerstone macroeconomics model that does away with one nearly universal assumption. Similarly to the Solow-Swan model, it’s ...

The measurement of health in surveys involves collecting data from individuals about their health status, health-related behaviours, and experiences, often as part of multi-purpose surveys. These ...

Programme overview Join the University of Urbino, Italy – a 500-year-old, UNESCO-listed institution renowned for the social sciences – for the ninth edition of its interdisciplinary PhD in Global ...

The Solow-Swan model is an economic growth model that uses a production function (often Cobb-Douglas) to determine the long-term growth path of an economy. It further shows how the economy trends ...