The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit papers covering issues in all areas linking finance and politics. Topics: Political economy of banking; Electoral cycles and banks’ behavior; Political systems and financial crises; Political connections of firms; Political uncertainty and...

Papers that examine competition between financial intermediaries, the risk taking of individual banks, the stability of the financial sector and its regulation are of particular interest. The workshop aims at linking young economists interested in related topics. It provides a platform to...

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer in Prague, 8 five-day intensive hands-on courses in general equilibrium modeling, GVAR, DSGE, fiscal and budgetary policy and macro-econometric modeling using GAMS, Matlab, dynare and Eviews. Introductory and advanced levels. The following courses will be...

The financial crisis and the European debt crisis in the euro have increased the interest in the early detection of financial constraints, as credit crunches affect investment decisions of firms and saving decisions of households. Economic tendency surveys and surveys in general are one...

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer intensive hands-on courses in general equilibrium modeling, GVAR, DSGE, fiscal and budgetary policy and macro-econometric modeling using GAMS, Matlab, dynare and Eviews. The following courses will be offered: - Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with...

This workshop explores life-course influences on the different aspects of retirement. Example topics are: - how working careers influence retirement age and pensions, - how childhood living conditions influence health and well-being after retirement, - how cumulative (dis)advantages shape social...

The goal of this one-day workshop on Trade, Migration and Labor Market Outcomes is to bring together leading theoretical and empirical economists from the field to stimulate interaction and instigate policy conclusions based on novel research that combines new theory with new empirics. The...

The goal of the workshop is to bring together international scholars working on current issues in taxation. Topics: - Accounting for income taxes - Tax accounting and capital markets - Similarities and differences between tax and financial accounting; book-tax conformity - Tax planning, tax...

The workshop aims to bring together about 25 researchers from all fields of economics to discuss high quality research with a focus on R&D, innovation and public policy. We aim at a mix of theoretical and empirical studies exploring the determinants of innovation and R&D based growth and the...

We welcome submissions on any topic, empirical or theoretical, dealing with the effects of the personal income tax on household and firm behavior. New research on traditional topics, such as tax effects on labor supply, household savings, and portfolio choice, is welcome. However, more recent...