The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields in applied and theoretical Public Economics and, more generally, to papers in the area of: - Taxation and Redistributive Systems, - Welfare Economics, Well-being Measures, Inequality, - Normative Economics, - Political Economy, -...

Professor Steve Pudney from the University of Essex will present a 3-day course on panel data analysis techniques on Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 December 2015 at the University of Melbourne. The course will use examples from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)Survey and...

Key themes: - The impact of microfinance in Europe - The relationship between impact and organisational challenges of microfinance in Europe - The role of microfinance in the European institutional context Papers addressing personal microfinance in Europe are particularly welcome. Papers...

The aim of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to researchers to exchange their ideas on agglomeration and environment. We wish to focus the discussions around two main topics: first, the economic dynamics of regions and urban expansion on which researchers can broach the questions of the...

This year’s conference features a special focus on climate change issues, in preparation for the United Nations “COP 21” talks this winter (Paris, November 30 to December 11, 2015). Indeed, we aim to provide academic contributions to this landmark climate change summit, and the scientific...

This four-day conference will be the largest forum for the scientific community to come together ahead of the 21st UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP21), which will be hosted by France in December 2015 (“Paris Climat 2015”). Building on the results of IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5), the...

The overall theme for the 18th Annual Conference is "Information for the Policy Maker: Practical Economic Modelling for Tomorrow" with subthemes on: - International trade and trade policy - Climate change and adaptation - Impacts of energy and climate policy - Labour markets and migration -...

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

The Climate Finance Day will bring together major players in these areas to foster communication, collaboration and the adoption of forward-looking strategies for a fast-changing world.