DLT is emerging for a disruption of our current financial infrastructure. As such, Blockchain Finance seeks to combine open-source, peer to peer building blocks into sophisticated products using blockchain technology, seeking to disintermediate and decentralize the traditional financial service industry. This lecture will combine insights on DLT with recent applications from finance.

Design of Institutions and Policy

In this workshop, we present ongoing research at MIP and discuss the criteria and guidelines for smart modelling of social and economic situations.

In this workshop, we present ongoing research at MIP and discuss the criteria and guidelines for smart modelling of social and economic situations.

Introducing dynamic models and workhorses in macroeconomics, understanding the role of innovation and institutions for economic development and discussing policies to foster innovation and economic growth.

This intermediate course focuses on the core thinking devices and foundations in macroeconomics and monetary economics, and uses these devices to understand economic growth, business cycles, crises as well as how to conduct monetary and fiscal policies and policies to foster the stability of financial and economic systems.

review of technological innovations; understanding and modelling economic growth;design of growth policies

Institutions and incentives for innovative activity in the private and public sector

Recent developments in the fields of contract theory, finance, banking, money and macroeconomics.

The Policy Design seminar teaches how to design good rules and policies in a variety of areas: growth policy, rules for democracy, global public goods and climate policy, banking regulation and public debt reduction. The main tools are: game theory, general equilibrium theory, mechanism theory, contract theory, collective decision theory and dynamic macroeconomics.

Noncooperative and Cooperative Game Theory, concepts and applications

This series is a joint project by ETH Zurich and the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich. It provides an overview of interdisciplinary research on intellectual property, innovation, antitrust, privacy & technology policy. Scholars from law, economics, management and related fields present their current research. All speakers are internationally well-known experts from Europe, the U.S. & beyond.