This summer, the 13th Tinbergen Institute Conference will be held on International Trade and Development at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam. The TI conference is held every year but on different topics.

In the presence of frictions, markets often (but not always) do not generate the socially efficient outcome. However, asymmetric information between the private and public sector prevents the government from designing efficient policies. In both labor and public economics advances have been made...

Topics: - Climate change, business and development - Managerial and entrepreneurial responses to global development challenges - Managing commodity and energy market s - Natural disasters and business (including tourism) - Energy efficiency and competitiveness - Green growth, consumer...

The EUDN PhD Student Workshop aims at giving PhD students in Development Economics an opportunity to present papers in an informal environment, as well as to exchange the results of recent and ongoing research in different fields of development economics. ontributions from all possible fields of...

Topics: - General trends in market-based environmental policies and instruments - New forms of neoliberal conservation (including web 2.0, species banking, etc) - Agro-food systems, the meat-industrial complex, and aquaculture - Agro-fuels, energy and climate change - The relation between...