The VII Chemnitz East Forum will address those current as well as future trends of research on transforming societies. The various aspects of this heterogeneous research field, focused on social science based research, will be highlighted. Especially empirical studies with sound theoretical...

The topic of this year's CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe' and will cover the following sub-areas: (1) the Flexibility of European Labor Markets and Labor Mobility within the EU, (2) the Flexibility of Product Markets, (3) Financial...

An der Forschungsstelle für Nationale und Internationale Finanzordnung am Lorenz-von-Stein-Institut an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel wurde in den vergangenen fünf Jahren ein Mikrosimulationsmodell (KiTS – Kiel Tax-Benefit Micro-Simulation Model) für die Bundesrepublik...

Organizations often get locked in specific ways of seeing and doing things. Sometimes, they even get trapped. Such lock-ins occur at different levels ranging form the individual, group, departmental, alliance, regional, industrial and societal level. They can also be found in different types...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad...

Das Generalthema der Kieler Tagung für den nicht offenen Teil lautet: »Innovation und Institution« Besonderes Interesse gilt dabei den Aspekten: Innovationsfördernde oder -behindernde Institutionen Innovation von Institutionen Institutionalisierung von Innovation Netzwerke: Ersatz oder...

In Zeiten neuer wirtschaftlicher Herausforderungen gewinnen internationale Märkte zunehmend auch für mittelständische Unternehmen an Bedeutung. Ausgewiesene Experten aus Wissenschaft, Beratung und Praxis berichten über ihre Erfahrungen und zeigen neue Wege auf. Durch eine Vielzahl von...

The two conferences will deal with the microeconomic incentives, macroeconomic implications, and political sustainability of intergenerational transfers, on the one hand, and the transitional costs and macroeconomic implications of funded systems of retirement savings, on the other.

During the conference research papers will be presented on topics of future directions in business informatics research and application of information technologies. Moreover, papers are presented on the coming information society and its requirements on support systems and their design. The...