RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum of junior and senior scholars discussing cutting-edge research in economic growth, trade, and economic history dealing with economic development disparities across and within countries. This workshop aims to...

The meeting aims to promote the discussion around the functioning of markets and their regulations, that is relevant for Latin American and Caribbean Economies. This includes papers addressing issues in other regions when those issues are deemed relevant for the regional context. We welcome both...

The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Economic History workshop on all subjects of economic history provided they are particularly concerned with developing regions.

There has been a recent surge of work in housing and urban economics, with people often scattered across otherwise disjoint fields such as public finance, labor, trade, development and macro, and using different methodologies. This segment aims to bring together researchers that share an...

This segment would feature post-crisis research on the central role of banks in the economy, their incentives for risk-taking, developments in fintech, the role of banks for financial stability and payments provision, and the importance of financial frictions for households and firms more...

This session is at the intersection of Labor, Macro, and Public Economics. In the past few years, there has been a burgeoning interest in the use of general equilibrium models disciplined by micro data to analyze labor markets and evaluate policies that affect them. The use of these models to...

The idea of this session is to bring together labor economists and macroeconomists with interests in labor markets with two goals. The first goal is to be a venue to discuss the latest research about labor markets. The second goal is to promote intellectual exchange among scholars working on...

This session discusses the latest advances in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, defined broadly. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, connections of regulation for intermediaries, households and policymakers in the US and outside the US.

The idea of this session is to bring together microeconomic theorists working on dynamic games and contracts with more applied theorists working in macro, finance, organizational economics, and other fields. First, this is a venue to discuss the latest questions and techniques facing researchers...