The purpose of the workshop is to identify policies and reforms that may suitably support the recovery from the crisis, also through empirical characterization of how institutional factors and past reforms have shaped country-specific crisis experiences.

The organising committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on small business financing and its importance for the real economy. Topics: - Availability of credit for small businesses and firms' competitiveness; - Financial deregulation...

Topics: - financial market incentives and bank funding, - International implications of the evolving models of funding, - the impact of different types of bank funding on the supply of corporate lending (including SME lending) and investment, - corporate bond issuance as a complement/substitute...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Circular and return migration - The role of social networks and Diaspora externalities - Remittances, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI - Brain drain - Migration and institutional change - Immigrant integration - Immigration policies

This workshop invites empirical and theoretical contributions using the task-based approach from all areas of labour market research, and from related fields such as sociology and economics of vocational education and training, industrial economics, international comparisons, public finance, or...

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...

The workshop will focus on but not be limited to empirical research in the following fields: - Labour market institutions and policies - Labour mobility and dynamics - Inequality and education - Qualification and skills - Regional disparities

In response to the financial crisis of 2007-2009, a number of countries are currently reconsidering and changing the setup of their financial supervisory system. In a large number of countries, central banks will be given a more prominent role, in micro- and especially in macro-prudential...

The conference is targeted at quantitative experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers as well as academics. It aims at facilitating an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the participating organisations, encouraging knowledge...

We thus welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions from the following fields: - Human capital investments and migration - Macro impacts of international mobility - Political economy of immigration policies The workshop is organised as part of the Marie Curie Research Training Network...