The objective of the workshop is to give Indian researchers an introduction to some of the state-of-the-art techniques that are being developed by international experts working in empirical economics. The techniques covered will be (i) Randomized Evaluations (ii) Macroeconomic modeling in the...

The conference will showcase research on these issues from (social) science and technology studies, and feminist and post-colonial studies under the framework of the project Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West Comparative Study (KNOWING, Framework Programme 6, www.knowing.soc.cas.cz).

Der bisherige internationale Diskurs zu Fragen von Umwelt und Entwicklung ist von dieser Fragmentierung gekennzeichnet.Auffällig ist, dass ursprünglich Wachstum als entwicklungspolitisches Ziel in Frage gestellt wurde. Mit der Zeit wurden unterschiedliche Formen von Wachstum differenziert:...

Our aim is to organize a two-day conference in order to discuss recent techniques for the numerical valuation of american and bermudan options.

Thema der Kerntagung Experimentelle Ökonomie: Neue Wege, neue Erkenntnisse? Die Anmeldung zur Teilnahme an der Jahrestagung ist ausschließlich im Internet unter www.socialpolitik.org/tagungsanmeldung/ möglich.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Market Dynamics - Agent-Based Macroeconomics - Discrete Choice Models in Economics and Management Sciences - Emergence and Dynamics of Norms and Conventions - Financial Market and Organization Models (Stock Price Dynamics, Herding in...

Auf dem Kongress diskutieren namhafte Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaftler/innen sowie Vertreter und Vertreterinnen aus Politik und Wirtschaft in thematisch fokussierten Symposien die Ursachen, Erscheinungsformen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen dieser Entwicklungen. Die Organisator/innen setzen mit...

Topics: - Climate change and energy - Regional and rural development, structural funds - Sustainable development strategies at various levels of government - RTD for sustainable development - Sustainable consumption and production - Environmental resources and biodiversity - Gender and diversity...

The Conference provides a forum for dissemination of modern research in economic growth and development economics using both theoretical and empirical approaches. Papers with an India focus are especially welcome.

This conference will discuss for the first time in East-Central Europe current obstacles to successful science policy implementation and discrepancies between the status quo and stated goals concerning gender equality and the position of early stage researchers. This will be done through...