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.

This workshop targets applied and theoretical research on household finance and economic stability. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the implications of household leverage for consumption, employment, house prices both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The...

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.

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.

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.

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - Sources of asset price fluctuations: fundamentals and bubbles - Asset prices, financial frictions and the amplification/propagation of shocks - Interactions between financial and labour-market frictions -...

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.

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

Suitable research questions for submissions include (but are not limited to): - How do the dynamics of labor market variables vary across countries and what explains these differences? - How have labor market dynamics changed over time, e.g. with the recent financial crisis? - How have changes...

Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...