After the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991 a number of prominent researchers explored the diverse forms of capitalism and their evolution. Much of this literature countered both mainstream and orthodox Marxist views that capitalism would tend to gravitate towards one form, such as the Western...

EC-squared is a series of annual international conferences on research in quantitative economics and econometrics, launched in 1990. The acronym (EC)^2 stands for the European Conferences of the Econom[etr]ics Community. Its main aim is to maintain and extend an adequate forum for both senior...

Aktuelle Forschungsfragen zur Geldpolitik und zur Stabilität der Finanzmärkte stehen im Mittelpunkt eines IWH-Symposiums. Nachwuchswissenschaftler der Universitäten Heidelberg, Tübingen und Hohenheim stellen ihre Forschungsarbeiten vor und tauschen sich mit internationalen Experten aus...

The workshop covers presentations of both methodological and applied contributions on the frontier of research in quantitative macroeconomics, with a focus on empirical research.

The two‐day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

The workshop will focus on the causes and effects of heterogeneity among workers, households, or firms on macroeconomic outcomes. This includes but is not limited to research on wage dispersion, heterogeneity in unemployment and participation, the roles of firms and technologies in shaping...

The aim of the conference, organised every year since 1974, is to bring together scientists who work in the field of econometric modelling in order to facilitate the exchange of views and experience. Within the scope of interest are issues such as the problems of estimation, simulation,...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and broad macroeconomic topics....

Topics: - Institutional reform of economic governance - Monetary theory and theories of currency areas - Impact and design of monetary and fiscal policy - Industrial and innovation policy - Regulation of the financial sector and the bank-sovereign nexus - The external role of the Euro - The...