Employment is a key aspect of inclusive and sustainable development and this conference will deal with the following key labor market issues: - short and medium term outlook for jobs; - informal and non-regular employment; - unemployment insurance and social policy in developing Asia; -...

The main objective of the workshop is to help the leaders of local governments and national level policy makers develop a strategic approach in dealing with environmental and social issues facing businesses. This can be achieved by: - Demonstrating the potentials of transforming SME clusters...

Topics: Social, economic and political aspects of Climate Change.

In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

The emphasis of the conference: Limited Cognitive-Inferential Abilities and their Behavioral Consequences The subjects of the conference are not exclusive to the above emphasis, and other serious interdisciplinary works related to logic, game theory and social choice are all welcome. [gemäß...

Key note speakers and conference participants will present papers examining different means of adapting to the multiple consequences of climate change for the urban poor. Themes thus may include, but aren’t limited to, the nexus between climate change, urban poverty and: - Health, water and...

The objectives: 1) To increase interaction between researchers on all continents who share an interest in issues related to dynamic risk sharing: - Dynamic contracting (optimal compensation schemes, delegated portfolio management,...) - Dynamic risk measures, risk sharing implications - Risk...