Some of the specific issues to be considered are: - What are the forces driving urbanization and how do they differ from one region to another? - What are the economic and environmental costs and benefits of urban agglomerations? - What is the link between urban infrastructure and poverty...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The complex workings of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) affect everyone working in agribusiness, food and beverage manufacturing, food retail and biofuels. This in depth seminar offers you an accessible but comprehensive guide to the CAP and gives you a thorough understanding of the subject...

The objective of the workshop is to improve the understanding of the links between fiscal policy and long-run economic growth. The sessions of the workshop will cover the following topics: • The composition of public expenditure and economic growth • Taxation, public investment and...

The seminar will provide a “scientific forum” for reviewing the state of the art and the new directions in economic, institutional and policy research related to the recent and future CAP reform decisions. It will give an opportunity to present and examine views, procedures and quantitative...

"This conference will introduce you to Risk Navigator-SRM. Navigator includes a handbook and matching webtools designed to be a fun, practical and useful way to learn about identifying and managing agricultural risks. The program is based on the ten-step strategic risk management process." "This...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...

The topic of the 2008 SABF, "Empowering Agents of Change", pretends to analyze the existing change agents in the world and particularly those which have become blurred in South America, with the objective of finding out the causes of their lack of involvement and finding solutions to achieve...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together young and established researchers with an interest in political economy and public choice. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical.

The summer institute will be focused on the issues of Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Computable General Equilibrium (SCGE) Modelling. In a format of combined lectures and hands on training provided by top-level experts, we will deal with the following areas in the advanced training...