Highlights of the Twenty-Third Annual Institute include a discussion by the Competent Authority from the United States with several leading private practitioners. The program also will address key practical issues faced by tax practitioners, corporate tax executives, and the Internal Revenue...

The Ph.D. course will critically scrutinize the possibility of compensating for continual and long-term economic growth by dematerialization and steadily increasing eco-efficiency. The role of institutional frameworks in facilitating or discouraging dematerialization and increased eco-efficiency...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Brandeis International Business School will host this workshop, where researchers and practitioners will discuss issues central to the design, regulation, and use of financial markets, including liquidity, bid-ask spreads, transparency, and market...

This workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to meet, present research, and discuss policy options. Each session will allow for presentations on recently completed research, work in progress as well as ‘lead-in’ discussions providing an overview of new ideas,...

Norges Bank welcomes all central banks to this workshop focusing on business surveys carried out by central banks. Many central banks now carry out business surveys to gather intelligence on the national economy. These survey programmes go by many different names, such as the Beige Book (Federal...

The conference serves as a vehicle to provide additional training to researchers new to the field of aging.

The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of both theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current economic and financial crisis. The Seminar will consist of a Summer School from June 19 to 26, 2010,...

Recent research has shown that trust and civic spirit influence economic performance, but that economic performance also influences social values. In particular, it appears that civic spirit and trust are essential components of the efficiency of the welfare state. On the other hand, the quality...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together economists, econometricians, statisticians, and geographers to discuss the state–of–the–art and future challenges as well as opportunities in the fields of spatial econometrics and statistics. This workshop also aims to reinforce and encourage...

While the content of the typical undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics course has remained stable in recent decades, computers have become more powerful, easier to use, and as common as pencil and paper. In spite of these developments, teaching methods remain virtually unchanged, with chalk...