Poverty reduction requires adopting the right institutions—including monetary institutions. Emerging market economies that peg their currencies and thwart market adjustments risk overheating and might engender protectionism on the part of their trading partners. This year’s monetary...

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Social Theory, Politics and the Arts (STP&A) is an inter-disciplinary gathering of researchers, policy makers and practitioners that highlights current and conceptual issues in the development of cultural policy, theory, and arts administration practices in the United States and abroad. The...

The workshop invites both theoretical and empirical contributions in either International Strategy or Cross-Cultural Management. We are particularly interested in papers that may help us to enhance the dialogue between these two related, yet distinct subject areas. The workshop is organised on...

ASCE invites papers on subjects related to the Cuban economy and society, including macroeconomics; banking and finance; agriculture and the sugar industry; tourism; social and political aspects of economic development; education; health; environmental policy; law and legal institutions; civil...

Threshold effects and non-linearities are increasingly recognized to be present in the development process, and in the effects of policy on development. Traditionally, threshold effects were present in discussions of "stages of growth" or "the big push" and non-linearity was definitionally...

The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to explore, not only how political forces shape public policies in the United States, but more centrally how public policies function as political forces in their own right.

There will be three sessions on gender-related topics: p.e. aspects of women's acitvities in the economics profession, on the economics of spousal relationships and on issues of child care and the will also be three sessions on non-gender-related topics: areas of information technology and...