The theme for the 2017 SMS Annual Conference, “Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity,” embraces these challenges and the types of unconventional (i.e., unusual, avant-garde, exceptional, against-the-grain) strategies that might be used to address them.

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...

The conference will focus on recent challenges for macroeconomic policies and structural reform design, with an emphasis on micro-macro linkages. Issues of particular interest include the links between international trade and competitiveness, the implications of dispersed productivity growth,...

Conference Program: Pre-conference Workshop in cooperation with ICABR "The Green Revolution in Africa" - First Session Alexander Sarris "Food Security in Africa" - Second Session Luigi Mennella "Which perspective for Africa: Economic and Social Dimensions", Giovanni Andrea Cornia "The African...

The 13th EIASM Workshop aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the concerned field by fostering reflections and “prognoses” on Intangibles, Intellectual Capital and Integrated Reporting and Governance and, thus, to favour an osmosis between knowledge creation and knowledge...

European countries have transformed. Fiscal consolidation, the 2008 financial collapse, demographic changes, the refugee crisis, social movements, unemployment, and new political forces are all a threat to social dialogue, solidarity and the European project. Social policy has played a key role...

The ECSR 2017 conference theme is ”Institutions, Inequality and Social Dynamics”. Submissions under this theme will receive special attention, but as always, we welcome presentations on all relevant areas of sociological research, such as the labour market, work and employment, education,...

During the three days of the Conference almost one hundred papers were presented in parallel sessions either in Italian or in English on various subjects, among which: growth in Asian countries, corporate governance, China, Russia, theories of the firm, transition economies, industrial and...

Main topics: - The Robustness of Globalization Theory. Trade Liberalization and its Benefits; - Globalization, Inequality and Social Inclusion; - The United States and the Protectionist option: a New Trade Deal?; - How Scary is Disruptive Technology? Perspectives on Employment; - The Upcoming...

This workshop will focus on how governments set fiscal policy in the presence of mobile agents and how these agents respond. The workshop will feature both theoretical and empirical papers and welcomes papers containing both approaches. A goal of the workshop is to facilitate interactions...