The theme for this biennial in "North by Northwest, South by Southwest, Canada and the United States: Past, Present and Future". All proposals should have a distinctive Canadian focus, but we also encourage submissions that consider Canada in a comparative context. We are particularly interested...

Seven policy areas will be addressed at the JunePolicy Forum: A. Health and pension benefit systems B. Union organizing and collective bargaining C. The role of government in the auto industry and/or the finance/housing sector - connecting roles in financial, labor and product markets D....

The program will include submitted papers and the following plenary sessions: - Behavioral economics - Decision theory - Development economics - Econometrics of policy evaluation - Education policy - Factor models - The financial crisis - Theories of conflict - Trade and geography

The subject of the conference is "Workplace Dispute Resolution, Globalization and Change." This theme presents an opportunity for LERA to discuss, share, and learn from the multitude of methods and mechanisms, both domestic and international, that have been developed to resolve disputes which...

The 2009 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be held as part of the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations. The program will consist of contributed and invited papers. It is hoped that the research presented will represent a broad spectrum of applied...