Topics of interest include among others: - Objective Measures of Well-being: HDI, ISEW, GPI, versus GDP - Subjective Measures of Well-being: Happiness, Satisfaction, Mental Health, versus Income - Alternative and New Measures of Well-being both at macro and micro level - Leisure Time, Social...

Recent events have created new doubts about the dollar’s prospects for remaining the leading international reserve currency. The crisis has not exactly enhanced the attractions of the United States as a producer of high quality financial assets. Yet incumbency is a strong advantage in...

Topics: - Causes and evolution of the financial crisis - Contribution of macroeconomic policies to stability - Reform of regulation and supervision - Reform of the international financial institutions

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...

The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: - Impact of the financial crisis and banking instability on credit markets; - Credit risk and business cycles; - The interplay between the real and...

The I.S.E.O. Summer School introduces to some of the principles of international economy, investigating the role of America and Europe in the international economic scenario. It focuses on growth, on the strategies and instruments of monetary policy, on the structure and mechanisms of the...

Theoretical and empirical papers on productivity, production and efficiency measurement in industrial engineering, economics, operations research, management science, or related fields are invited. The conference covers new contributions in micro and macroeconomics, including theory of...

The Summer School “Human Capital and Economic Growth” of the Faculty of Economics Rimini and RCEA will combine a thorough review of the literature (both theoretical and empirical) along with state-of-the-art econometric analysis of the issues on the role of human capital in economic growth.

The conference will focus on capital markets research in the interrelated areas of corporate accounting, finance and governance. In addition to conventional original research contributions, the editors also wish to encourage the submission of papers that focus on evaluating research methods in...

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro. To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the...