The purpose of the workshop is to identify policies and reforms that may suitably support the recovery from the crisis, also through empirical characterization of how institutional factors and past reforms have shaped country-specific crisis experiences.

Mit der Frage, welche Lehren aus der aktuellen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zu ziehen sind, beschäftigt sich eine internationale Konferenz des Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA). Experten aus den USA und Europa werden vom 13. bis 15. Dezember 2012 an der Universität Heidelberg...

We invite the submission of theoretical, computational and empirical work for the SEEK Workshop on "Non-Linear Economic Modelling: Theory and Applications". Presentations that consider relations between the financial sector and economic dynamics are particularly welcome. The objective of the...

The 4th Halle Forum is devoted to the development of cities located in Central and Eastern Europe that have been undergone the process of transition from the planned to the market economy. The two-day conference will cover four main topics (whereat the restriction to cities in post-socialist...

Topics: - Geographies of financial markets and institutions - Uneven development in Europe - Institutions in urban and regional development - Markets and marketization - New perspectives on Evolutionary Economic Geography - Innovation and knowledge

Formation, growth, and closure of firms are crucial for innovation, employment, and structural change in modern economies. The aim of this conference is to discuss recent scientific contributions on the interdependencies between finance, human capital, innovation activities, and investment...

The symposium is to present, discuss, and fine-tune outstanding papers that fall within the theme of the Journal of Business and Economics in Times of Crisis (JOBETOC) and that demonstrate promise to be published in the journal. Papers could come from disciplines as diverse as marketing,...

One objective of the workshop is to address new developments in theoretical and empirical research in productivity and efficiency measurement. Papers on the theory of productivity and efficiency measurement as well as on all fields of empirical application, including agriculture, regulation,...

The Business and Economics Summer Term (BEST) is an academic program in an international setting, which is designed for upper division undergraduate and graduate students. BEST offers a variety of courses in business, economics and German language with special emphasis on the European economic...

The workshop has the aim of bringing together high quality papers that deal with wage dispersion and inequality over the business cycle; worker reallocation and mismatch unemployment; and firm dynamics, job creation and job destruction.