The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

In Europe, the past decade has been marked by relatively strong employment growth, while labour productivity and labour shares have experienced a decline in a number of countries, in particular in the euro area. Understanding the patterns, sources and implications of employment dynamics is...

The interpenetration of democracy and the economy has been subject to longstanding suspicions, on both sides. Economists frequently decry what they regard as ill-conceived interventions into the market from populist politicians. For their part, political scientists are often concerned about the...

The special areas of interest of the conference are: - determinants of migration, - labour migration after EU enlargement and its impact on the labour markets of the sending and the receiving countries, - macroeconomic effects of migration (remittances, balance of payments, economic growth,...

Main Theme: “Globalization, Liberalization, Informatization and Human Behavior" Topics: 1. Theory of Economic Policy 2. Public Finance and Fiscal policy 3. Monetary and Financial Policy 4. Growth, Development and Population Policy 5. Industrial Organization and Industrial Structural Policy 6....

During this conference, research projects which are based on BA and IAB data will be introduced. Moreover, the conference is an important contact and experience exchange forum for data users and producers.

This seminar has been organized because 26 years after the adoption of the Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment by the 13th ICLS (1982), time may have come to start reflecting upon a possible revision or update of...

Theme: Labour underutilisation, skill shortages, and social inclusion - three sides of the same coin.

Thema "Rückkehr des Staates. Öffentliche Verantwortung für Wirtschaft und Beschäftigung"