During the financial crisis and the subsequent “great recession”, economists lamented the lack of policy guidance provided by standard economic models for a situation that didn’t seem to conform to classical theories of risk aversion. The prevailing view was that agents and policy makers...

The Program Committee invites submissions for about 20 presentations from academic researchers in all areas of labor market policy evaluation and methodological contributions from related fields.

We would like to invite you to attend the conference and to submit proposals for papers for one of the four workshops shown below. These should address the key themes of EU policy in each area. Workshop 1: Austerity policies Workshop 2: The future of the eurozone Workshop 3: The EU and the...

The aim of this Ph.d. workshop is to illuminate what the “post-crisis post-Lisbon” period comprises in terms of economic and then social policy development. A brief retrospective analysis of European governance transformation, since 1999, points out the spillover from monetary and financial...

European institutions and European integration have recently undergone a serious test in the wake of the financial, economic and fiscal crises. While the euro has supported the integration process and has protected the members of the monetary union from internal exchange rate shocks, the crisis...

Theme and Background: The production and marketing of food takes place in an interdependent dynamic system, the food system, involving activities of - enterprises in chains and networks in agriculture, food processing, and retail and - consumers, media, and an institutional environment for...

This conference is being held in conjunction with the ASSA 2011 Annual Meeting. AFEE invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels on the topic of The Policy Relevance of Institutional Economics. As the second decade of the 21st century begins, nations across the globe face a...

The subject of the conference is "The Status of Economics after the Crisis". Social economics is devoted to research on the ethical foundations and implications of economic analysis and policy. We invite proposals for papers which address question such as: - Status of the discipline - Economic...

ISIR sessions at ASSA meetings Each year ISIR sponsors a session at the ASSA (Allied Social Sciences Associations) Meetings in January in the USA. Historically, these sessions had focused exclusively on the topic of inventories. From this year’s session, however, the focus have been expanded...