The program is part of IZA’s network activities and its objective is to bring outstanding PhD students to Washington, DC. The program encourages interaction between talented PhD students and labor economists located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. On each of the five days of the...

The theme of the conference is "Risk Management and Asset Allocation" The conference will focus on the asset allocation function. In addition, there will be papers related to risk management to compliment the asset allocation theme. Both the theoretical and practical dimensions of both areas...

Topics: - Behavioral economics/finance - Bounded Rationality - Cognitive, social, and personality psychology - Consumer Psychology - Current economic trends/Financial crisis - Fairness, inequality aversion - Gender and economic issues - Happiness - Heuristics - History of economic thought -...

The 2013 IAFFE conference theme, “Feminist Economists’ Perspectives on Women’s Education and Work Across the Globe,” is intended to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue on the issues facing women’s access to work and education across the globe. In addition to regular presentations, we...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision-making in the public and private sector. The conference will cover all areas of applied modeling in economics.

The Summer Seminar provides a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical and the applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current economic and financial crisis. It is of particular interest to graduate students, recent...

The LERA Program Committee invites proposals for stimulating, creative, and controversial panels, symposia, workshops and papers related to this theme as well as other topics of current interest and the mission of LERA. We encourage submissions from different disciplines–including but not...

Each Spring, thousands of government officials, the private sector, journalists, academia, civil society representatives, and other interested observers gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. At the heart of the gathering are meetings of the joint World...

The theme for the conference is "Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy." The 2013 Minsky Conference will address both financial reform and poverty in the context of Minsky’s work on financial instability and his proposal for a public job guarantee. Panels will...