Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

Topics I. Political economy and sustainable development A. Techno-economic paradigms in history, innovation and social change B. Environment, new technologies and innovation C. Sustainable development: world wide experiences II. Management of innovation and sustainable development A. Enterprise...

The financial crisis and subsequent recession have sharply exacerbated divergences and tensions in the Euro area and in the EU as a whole. The Greek economy is in deep crisis and several other European states face similar pressures. The policies of the EU and the stronger members states are...

The global economic crisis has now entered what is arguably its third phase. Following the acute financial crisis of September 2008 and the ensuing economic depression, we are now experiencing the debt crisis stage where whole nations face the threat of bankruptcy (with Greece currently at the...

This is the ninth in a series of conferences on the applications of logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of individual and interactive decision-making. Preference is given to papers that bring together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and decision theory,...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.); Local Public Economics and...

Papers submitted may be in any of the following areas related to: - Monetary policy - Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions - Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand - Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations - Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates - Corporate...

Entrepreneurship is more than new business creation. Corporate, government and social entrepreneurship are powerful manifestations of the human drive to seek innovative solutions to economic and social problems. What are the challenges that business and government leaders can expect? How can we...

The overall theme of the workshop is the transformation of social policies in a comparative perspective. We welcome abstracts related to one of the three topics below. 1) Employment policies 2) Private insurance 3) Care

The aim of this conference is to add to the debate on the political economy aspects of the ongoing global financial crisis, and to stimulate research in this area. Topics that will be discussed include: regulatory capture and lobbying, bailout negotiations, and consumer protection.