In 2014, the Summer School returns to the subject of financial crises and their long-lasting legacy of problems. The recent debt crisis has put macroeconomics in disarray.
The course will put the crisis into a broader context by reviewing the history of financial crises, by analyzing how existing theories need to be adapted or revised to provide a better understanding of crises of this nature and by discussing how macro-policies and financial regulation might be changed.
Beyond economics, crises of this magnitude raise legal and political issues of great difficulty. If prior legal commitments were to be consistently enforced this would threaten the total implosion of the financial system.
To prevent this eventuality, governments have to decide which debts will be allowed to go into default and which ones will be discharged with tax-payer money. These decisions are unavoidably highly controversial.
Having relinquished their monetary sovereignty, governments of the European Monetary Union find their policy options severely constrained. Proposals to modify the EMU so as to promote a recovery will also be discussed.
Students will also have an opportunity to present their own work and receive comments from faculty.
The ideal candidates for the School are Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows, and newly minted researchers in macroeconomics, finance; and the economics of organizations and institutions. People interested in participating in the Summer School are encouraged to fill in the application form on line and are asked to submit a curriculum vitae, a two-page essay describing their interest on financial crises, a course transcript from their PhD program, including advanced examinations passed, two letters of recommendation, and statements about their current or projected research, along with relevant research papers, if any.
Applications are due by Monday, 7 April 2014. Admissions decisions will be announced by 22 April 2014. All applicants will be informed by e-mail about the results.
The sessions will be held at Hotel Villa Madruzzo, Trento, Italy. All participants are required to stay for the entire duration of the event. Food and accommodation will be covered by the School
(except for meals during the weekend) and participants will have to cover travel expenses.
Please direct logistical questions to the Summer School secretary (ccschool@economia.unitn.it).
This is the 15th of a series of intensive courses to be offered by the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL) with the financial support of:
Previous courses were offered in Computable Economics (2000, Director K. Vela Velupillai), Experimental Economics (2001, Director Daniel Friedman), Adaptive Economic Processes (2002, Director Peter Howitt), Behavioral Economics (2003, Directors Daniel Friedman and David Laibson), Institutional Economics (2004, Director Richard N. Langlois), Evolutionary Economic Dynamics (2005,Directors Ken Binmore and Larry Samuelson), Agent-Based Computational Economics (2006, Directors Leigh Tesfatsion and Robert Axtell), Agent-Based Finance (2007, Directors Cars Hommes and Thomas Lux), Financial Instability and Crises (2008, Directors Domenico Delli Gatti and Mauro Gallegati), Networks and Innovation (2009, Directors John Padgett, Lee Fleming and Massimo Riccaboni), Macroeconomics and Financial Crises (2010, Directors Peter Howitt, Daniel Heymann and Axel Leijonhufvud), Evolution of Social Preferences (2011, Directors Dan Friedman and Luigi Mittone), Market Design: Theory and Pragmatics (2012, Directors Dan Friedman and David Parkes) and Modularity and Design for Innovation (2013, Richard Langlois)
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Program Directors: Axel Leijonhufvud, UCLA and University of Trento and Enrico Zaninotto, University of Trento Directors of the School:
Guest Lecturers: Laboratory Director: Luigi Mittone, University of Trento Tutor: Nicolas Garrido, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. Lab Technical Assistant: Marco Tecilla, University of Trento Summer School Secretary: ccschool@economia.unitn.it The course is offered by the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory CEEL of the University of Trento
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