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.

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...

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...