This workshop aims at bringing together leading researchers that are contributing both theoretically or empirically to the study of firm and industry dynamics, their determinants, and the policies aimed at fostering them. Topics: - Firm dynamics, productivity, and long-term growth; - Firm...

The organisers of Historical Materialism Sydney 2018 invite proposals for panels and individual papers dealing with these themes or any other topics that engage with historical materialist thought from critical sociology and geography; heterodox economics and the critique of political economy;...

Recent studies project populations reaching levels of 12-14 billion individuals by the end of the century. This raises a set of questions regarding food security, pandemic threats, and environmental crisis. These issues relate back to Thomas Malthus and the concerns he raised relating to...

Die Diskussion um Rentenniveau und Haltelinien, um Beitragssätze und Anpassungsformeln wird für Laien immer schwerer durchschaubar. Deshalb wollen wir die Diskussion mit Expertinnen und Experten auf-nehmen, die uns die Grundlagen und den jetzigen Stand unseres Systems, seine Schwierigkeiten...

We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Research topics of particular relevance to the conference include the following: - Labour market effects of technological change and digitalisation, - Demand effects of technological progress across ages, genders and skills, - Skills...

The Symposium will bring together scholars discussing Marx’s legacy and applicability for the present. It welcomes proposals from different disciplines, approaches, methodologies and countries. The Thematic Areas include: 1. Marx’s dialectical and historical materialism: unity,...

The workshop brings together many economists from around the African continent and globally fulfilling one of our major mandates – to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into problems facing the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. The five...

This years conference will be the second annual conference of the Economics of Digitization Research Area of the CESifo Network. The area studies societal and economic consequences of digitization. It has a wide scope of relevant research and its aim is bring the leading researchers from both...

We welcome contributions aimed at casting light on the manifold aspects of the 2008 global crisis and how to address them in policy action. These contributions can be both theoretical and empirical, focusing on retrospective, contextual and prospective dimensions. Topics: - The financialisation...

Conference panels: - Economic Predicaments in Central and Eastern Europe; - Social Policy Perspectives in Central and Eastern Europe; - EU-Membership: Burden or Opportunity? - Islands of Economic Success; - Socio-economic Development Prospects.