In the aftermath of the crisis, this workshop will focus on employment creation as a means of remedying the strong rises in unemployment seen in some economies. The workshop will pay particular attention to the factors behind, and pre-requisites for, the creation of high quality and high...

Topics: - Household consumption, saving, and portfolio choice - Housing, mortgage markets, and financial markets - Household finance, credit constraints and monetary policy - Household indebtedness and financial distress - Household finances and the financial and economic crisis - Financing...

Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...

Topics: - the functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment; - the impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation, including empirical studies on segmentation in the money markets of...

The aim of this conference is to consider the ways in which (1) cities and regions throughout the world are facing up to and can adapt to these challenges, (2) cities and regions can help create an architecture and construct relationships that can contribute to the development of a world that is...

Conference themes: - Regional and urban development theory revisited - City and regiona governance for a post-crisis age - Growing apart? The increase in social and spatial inequality - Evidence-based urban and regional policies - Smart cities, smart regions? - Financing city and regional...

We welcome all submissions with a regional focus and especially those in the following areas: Urban and regional polic; New challenges in urban planning; New economic geography; Big data and regions; Climate change and sustainability; Politics and territory; Mega-regions and City regions;...

Rethinking the Region and Regionalism in Australasia seeks contributions from researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in all areas of regional analysis, especially those focussed on Australasia. Themes of interest to the conference include: - Regions at the end of the mining boom; -...

Social and economic imbalances of the current phase of globalization require a rethinking of the model of international and regional development. The issues of inequality, ecological risks, and poor growth in some areas put at the center of the scientific and political debate the theme of values...