The aim of the Globelics Academy PhD School is to support the training of PhD students from all over the world writing theses on issues related to innovation systems and development. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation with PhD students from the South and the North in...

Topics: Governing Diversity & Inequality; Stability in Multi-Level Governance; Inequality, Diversity & Welfare; Managing Conflicts in Plural Societies; Culture and Inequality; Regional Inequalities & Public Policy; Education, Inequality and Social Policies; Diversity and Social Values; Digital...

The conference focuses on research in economics, finance and management with applications to and implications for real-life problems with societal impact. Conference Key Topics: Banking and Finance; Empirical corporate finance; Empirical industrial organization; Labour and education economics;...

The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are low-income countries that face severe structural impediments to sustainable development. These countries are highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks and have low levels of human assets. To help the LDCs address these specific challenges,...

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...

In accordance with the latest UN guidelines we regret to inform the 2020 WIDER Development Conference has been cancelled.

We are pleased to announce that the April Conference is being launched in a distributed format. You can view the updated Conference programme along with the programme for the Associated events on the conference website. The distributed format ensures maximum opportunities for discussion and...

Technology advancements are driving the digitalization of financial markets, and large-scale investment in new emerging technologies are fundamentally changing the operating environment as finance is becoming more data driven. While these innovations in artificial intelligence and big data have...

The special topic of RHEC 2019 is “Contributions of Higher Education to Society and Economy: Global, National and Local Perspectives”. The Conference will offer a vibrant international forum for academics, strategists, institutional leaders, etc. to share opinions and explore multiple...

The conference focuses on research that has applications to and implications for real-life problems. Hence the conference acronym reflects its motto — iCare = I care. Conference topics: Empirical corporate finance; Empirical industrial organization; Experimental economics and finance; Labour...