At this IZA topic week we will bring together economists and labor economists who have worked on the political economy of reforms in general and of labor markets reforms in transition and emerging economies. As we can perceive the transition context as a quasi-natural experiment, it is...

The topic of the 13th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Financial Supervision in an Uncertain World’. The recent turmoil on global financial markets and the following recession have raised concerns that the current financial supervisory system does not suffice anymore. This can mainly be...

Lecturers: Gary Fields (Cornell University): “Modeling Labor Markets and Labor Market Policies” Eric V. Edmonds (Dartmouth College): “Child and Family Labor Supply in Low Income Economies”