From the Study Center in Gerzensee we wish you a prosperous 2024! We are looking forward to an exciting new year of academic activity. Here’s a preview of what we have planned for this year.
 

Central Bankers Courses

This year, we are again offering an exciting program of courses for central bank staff. 112 selected participants from all over the world will take part in our four courses for mid-level managers on Monetary Policy & Exchange Rates, Monetary Theory & Policy, Financial Stability, and Financial Markets. We will also welcome 56 selected participants to our courses for analysts and researchers on Inflation Forecasting, and Monetary Economics.
 

Graduate Training

We are delighted to announce that Cristina Arellano (Minneapolis Fed and University of Minnesota) will join the faculty of our Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students this year. Prof. Arellano will teach our course on international macroeconomics.

We are also excited to announce our 2024 Program of Advanced Courses in Economics with courses on Corporate Behavior; Survey Data in Economics & Finance; The Economics of Digital Markets; Machine Learning for Treatment Effects; Trade & Growth; Tax Systems; or Macroeconomics with Household Heterogeneity. PhD students, faculty members and research economists are welcome to apply!

Our 2024 Program of Law and Economics Courses while include courses on International Law as well as Law, AI & Machine Learning.
 

Gerzensee Forum

This May we will host a Conference on Financial Intermediation jointly organized with BIS, CEPR and SFI.

In October we will host our biannual Conference on Monetary Economics, co-organized with the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Swiss National Bank. Don’t miss our call for papers for this conference, which will be out soon.

And in between, we look forward to welcoming researchers attending symposia and workshops we host for our partner research networks: CEPR and the Swiss Finance Institute.

Can’t wait to meet you!

At the Study Center in Gerzensee we are getting ready to close the gates for this year. We look back on a busy, and exciting year of academic activities.

This year we hosted 159 central bankers from 73 countries in our continuing education program. 35 graduate students completed our renowned program for beginning doctoral students and 28 more are well on their way to complete the 2023/2024 program. 133 participants took part in our advanced courses in economics and law and economics. And numerous scholars visited the study center for research conferences, workshops and research retreats.  Thank you all for coming.. it was wonderful having you with us!

While we get the study center sparkling for the new year, we leave you with one final impression of 2023. This year, Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler  was one of the outstanding global scholars to spend time in Gerzensee. In October, she gave a course on the Law & Economics of Consumer Contracts and Privacy. And she also found time for an interview which we can now share with you. Listen to what Florencia Marotta-Wurgler has to say on why she studied law after economics, how she supports female students in law school, and how the internet has changed the law and economics of consumer contracts.