Topics: Algorithmic game theory; Algorithmic mechanism design; Auction algorithms and analysis; Computational general equilibrium and approximation; Coordination and collective action; Fixed point algorithms; Information economics; Knowledge economy and intellectual product pricing; Majority...

For the workshop, we invite PhD-students in sociology and political science to submit abstracts related to the topic of “Ageing Societies and the Welfare State”. The contributions may be qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual. Country-comparative studies are especially welcome.

The purpose of this Workshop is to explore the challenges and benefits of developing open innovation systems in the service and public sectors.

This ‘web 2.0’ offers various ways to use these opportunities to improve and enhance the data and information management of your own organisation. Most of these offerings are completely free of charge. Used alone or in combinations, the new tools may revolutionize the way development...

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...

Die 29. Olympischen Sommerspiele, die am 8. August 2008 in Peking eröffnet werden, ziehen die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf China. Internationale Medien beleuchten nicht nur die sportlichen Highlights, sondern werfen ihr Licht auch auf die Erfolge und Probleme des nunmehr...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...

The programme consists of lectures presented by staff members, presentations by doctoral students and discussion on their research plans.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together experts in such areas as network theory, public goods, altruism and and charity, Peer groups, behavioral economics, experimental economics, and noncooperative game theory who wish to explore how we might gain a better understanding of these types...

Session 1: Education and Poverty Session 2: Understanding Criminality Session 3: Selected Topics Session 4: Welfare Reform in Other Places Session 5: Human Capital Session 6: Earnings Volatility Session 7: Human Capital, Part 2 (Participation is by invitation only)