The reform process triggered by the recent financial crisis is gradually making progress. Advances are underway in the area of banking regulation, accounting standards, and market infrastructure (e.g. clearing houses for derivatives, etc.). A new framework for macroprudential policy is also...

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

The organizers welcome submissions of a theoretical or empirical nature related to the theme of the conference. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to): - Dynamic general equilibrium models with financial intermediaries - Financial intermediaries and boom-bust cycles - Bank capital and...

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together domestically-based dynamic general equilibrium macroeconomists. This is not intended to be a restriction. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Labor related issues have been studied in the economics profession from a number of different angles. The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will...

The Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of view. This...

The BBSS offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems.

Course Offering Summer 2011: - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation - Structural Econometrics for Industrial Organization - Dynamic and Non-linear Panel Data Models

Die Kasseler Sommerakademie zur Gestaltung der Weltwirtschaft bietet die Möglichkeit, sich fünf Tage intensiver mit weltwirtschaftlichen und -politischen Zusammenhängen auseinanderzusetzen und auf dieser Grundlage eine Einschätzung tagesaktueller Forderungen vorzunehmen. Das Programm umfasst...

Die Mitbestimmung nach dem Montan-Mitbestimmungsgesetz von 1951 ist die weitestgehende Mitbestimmung. Längst sind alle Gegenargumente entkräftet: Mitbestimmung ermöglicht demokratische Teilhabe, Mitbestimmung ist ökonomisch effizient, sie fördert den Wirtschaftsfrieden, sichert die...