The topic of the workshop will be productivity and regulation with transportation as one of the applications to be covered in this single session, four day workshop (with additional trips organised to Masada, the Dead Sea and the old city of Jerusalem) ending with a New Year’s Eve party.

2013 International Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management-ICSTM 2013 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Sustainable Tourism Management.

Topics: 1. Introduction: Key Theoretical Concepts and Empirics of Political Economy 2. Collective Choice and Voting 3. The Role of the State and Different Political Regimes 4. Institutional Change and Democratization versus Persistence and Dysfunctional Democracies 5. Beliefs, Culture and...

Der Workshop ist ein Teil des Projekts „Postwachstumspioniere – Kommunikationsprojekt zur Erweiterung des Postwachstumsdiskurses um die Rolle mittelständischer Unternehmen“ (www.postwachstumspioniere.de), das von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) gefördert und vom IÖW gemeinsam...

The workshop provides a forum to discuss state of the art research on the impact of shocks on households from a microeconomic perspective. The workshop is organized as part of the project “Economics of Climate Change: Coping with Shocks in Mongolia –Vulnerability, Assets and Migration”.

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.

Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, special emphasis will be given on areas such as: - The role of central banks and monetary policy - The role of fiscal policy - The conduct of monetary policy under zero bound conditions - The role of, and prospects for, economic growth - The...

Papers in all areas of accounting and finance are welcome.

The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers in the productivity field, both IARIW members and non-IARIW members, to present new research on important productivity topics.

Die Konferenz soll die folgenden Fragen aufgreifen: - Welche Fakten sprechen dafür, dass die von der Krise am stärksten betroffenen Staaten in Europa dabei sind, die Rezession zu überwinden, welche sprechen dagegen? - Wie viel Konvergenz und Divergenz in der Europäischen Währungsunion sind...