The role of fiscal policy for business-cycle stabilisation and for risk sharing in a monetary union is a matter of interest for both policymakers and academics, especially in view of the financial crisis in Europe of past years. The aim of the conference is to explore this role, accompanied by...

Im ersten Teil des Leopoldina-Symposiums wird die besondere Rolle der Wissenschaft im globalen Zusammenwirken für nachhaltige Entwicklung herausgearbeitet und ihr spezifischer Beitrag bei der Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 identifiziert. Darauf aufbauend werden im zweiten Teil die Herausforderungen...

Das Tagungsthema lautet: "Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft: regional vernetzt und global erfolgreich". Beiträge zum Tagungsthema können z.B. zu den folgenden Bereichen gehören: - Wettbewerbsfähigkeit durch regionale Cluster - Regionalvermarktung: Ausgestaltung, Förderung, Wirkung -...

International alumni of both institutions are invited to participate in the DAAD-funded summer school. During the summer school the participants will have an introductory day and then deal each day with a different aspect of food security: agronomic issues, business law aspects, and human rights...

We welcome submissions of papers addressing these aspects with a regional focus on Europe, Central Asia and China. Topics: - Links between rural economic development and migration. - The effects of migration on rural households’ welfare. - The role of agricultural development in labor shortage...

The topic of the 2016 edition of the School will be Social Insurance Programs. Lectures, presentations and discussions will cover several aspects of social insurance programs – including unemployment benefits, retirement systems, parental leave policies and health insurance. The focus will be...

The conference will focus on positive and normative studies of social insurance programmes including unemployment insurance, disability insurance, social security, and medical insurance. A large and increasing fraction of government budgets are allocated to these programmes. Their design varies...

Special attention on the fifth Bioeconomy Conference this year will be put on the bioeconomic developments in the BeNeLLux countries.

The conference topics "Employment" and "Social Protection" are broadly defined. The former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in turn, includes not only governmental institutions of the welfare state, but also other non-governmental institutions of...

Die jährlich ausgerichtete Veranstaltung richtet sich an Promovendinnen und Promovenden unterschiedlicher sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen und angrenzender Fächer (z.B. Soziologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft), deren laufende Doktorarbeit einen Zusammenhang mit dem...