The aim of the conference is to gather high quality recent research that explores the causes and consequences of sovereign default from three different, complementary perspectives: theoretical and empirical macroeconomics, macro-finance modeling, as well as economic history.

With unemployment rising and potential growth faltering, labor market reform has become more necessary than ever in OECD countries. Divergences remain however vivid regarding the direction of reforms: Which labor contracts? What role for labor taxation? Which minimum wages? What role for labor...

Environment and development concerns will remain on the agendas, although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resource management issues in developing and developed economies. The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment...

The main theme of this conference is to deepen and expend the analysis of Structural Economic Dynamics in the theoretical perspectives as well as in the perspectives of history of economic thought. We will also discuss the application of Structural Economic Analysis and some empirical...

The Symposium brings together academicians and practitioners with interests in banking, finance and monetary economics and provides a forum for presenting and discussing original research in banking economics and related topics. Research papers in all areas of banking, finance and monetary...

The workshop aims to bring together academics and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances in research on Sovereign Investment Funds: their strategies and their consequences for the financial and economic system, the consistency of their moves with the goals of the macroeconomic...

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...

Topics: - Inequality measurements - Economic growth, inequalities and poverty - Polarization, fragmentation, discrimination and horizontal inequalities - Economic and social mobility - Constitution of the middle classes - Poverty, vulnerability and vertical inequalities - Inequalities of...

Economists specializing in empirical economic research on issues relating to international trade and investment from the United States and Asia will present their latest research at this meeting.

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics; - Current account imbalances and international capital flows; - Global monetary system and financial crises; - International regulation of financial markets and intermediaries; - Open-Economy Macroeconomic Models; - Exchange Rate Regime; -...