The 11th Health and Ageing Conference will focus on new and emerging health risks, how they impact health and health financing mechanisms, and how insurance covers and manages these risks. Topics will include: - Typology and assessment of emerging health risks - Environmental health and...

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 -...

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...

Topics: • Econometric methodology: new approaches to the finance-growth nexus • Banking development vs. financial market development • Volatility, financial development and economic growth • Finance, the distribution of income, the size distribution of firms and innovation • Financial...