Theme 1 : CORRUPTION AND THE BLACK ECONOMY Theme 2 : SUSTAINABLE ROUTES OUT OF POVERTY-- PAST EXPERIENCES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES Theme 3 : EMERGING TRENDS IN TRADE AND CAPITAL FLOWS Theme 4 : CHALLENGES FOR TRANSFORMING THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN INDIA Special session of the 97th Annual Conference...

The conference will focus on on the policies and politics of austerity and on the various aspects of the Greek crisis. Papers dealing with similar experiences in other countries that may bring light on the effects of austerity policies in Greece will also be considered. The conference will be...

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

Topics: - cities and creative quarters as seedbeds for innovation - urban infrastructure and the accessibility of cities - European and national policies for urban development - measurement of urban development - the impact of formal and informal institutions on the development of cities and...

Conference theme: Regions in Recovery: Research, Practice and Policy ANZRSAI welcomes contributions on any topic related to regions. We invite academics, practitioners and policy advisers interested in any aspect of regional science, regional development or regional policy to participate.

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

Papers which are collaborative, international or multi-disciplinary are especially welcome: - Modelling and theorising the space economy: urban renewal and regional growth; - New approaches to agglomeration and the clustering of economic life; - The impacts of devolution and constitutional change...

The aim is to discuss developments in Counterfactual methods applied to the Impact Evaluation of policy interventions, with a focus on employment, social and education policies. This is in line with the emphasis on evidence-based policy-making in the EU 2014-20 programming period. The main...

The aim of this workshop is to deeply analyse the relationship among cultural tourism, heritage and economic growth. The regional/local dimension will be one of the topics to consider. Also the relationship between cultural tourism and sustainable urban development will be analyzed. Key-words:...