This workshop will seek a highly interactive exchange seeking common ground between the themes of poverty and the role of access to finance in development. We are interested in work, both empirical and theoretical, that examines this set of barriers to establishment and growth. Possible areas...

The summer school is organised by Maastricht University, in cooperation with the partner universities and the institutes of Isprit network and the US-based network of the Multidisciplinary and Comparative Program in Inequality and Social Policy of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard...

The conference will focus on the relation between innovation, competition, and growth, both at the firm, industry, and macroeconomic levels. Contributions will address such topics as the nature of technical change, the role of market and competition, the role of entrepreneurship, the...

The scope of the conference stretches from theoretical to empirical and policy studies, including cooperation for natural resource management, economics of property rights and institutions, bio-economic modelling, economics of agro-biodiversity and studies linking international trade, poverty...

The workshop will focus more specifically on the following topics: - Monetary Policy in the Euro area - Open Macroeconomics Dynamics and Exchange Rate - Productivity and Potential Output Performances, and Impact of Structural Reforms - Current Account Adjustment - Economic Growth and Convergence