The conference is intended to give an overview of the current research undertaken by members of the Global Economy area of the network and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between area members. The focus of this group is to explore how the gains from globalisation differ from the gains...

The massive and steady progress in computer technology during the last decades allowed to establish a new strand of modelling in social and economic sciences. So called agent-based models or multi-agent models do no longer require to aggregate individuals to representative social or economic...

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- Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz - Schließung von Stoffkreisläufen, Erhöhung des Abfallverwertungsgrades - Verbesserung der nationalen und internationale Wettbewerbsposition

Nachhaltige Entwicklung gilt gemeinhin als unabdingbare Voraussetzung für die Zukunftsfähigkeit unserer Wirtschaft. Verschiedenste Akteure widmen sich diesem Thema, allerdings auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise. Ein Vergleich der Positionen zur Nachhaltigkeit zeigt, dass das Ziel in seiner...

The 2004 IMHE General Conference will focus on some of the challenges faced by higher education in today’s' "knowledge society". Higher education institutions must respond to new funding and governance mechanisms, questions of access and equity, an increasing client base, new and developing...

The conference, jointly organized by CESifo and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) of Harvard University, will focus on the possible equity-efficiency tradeoff in education, with a special focus on the role of school systems for human capital formation in the global economy.