Topics: - Climate change, business and development - Managerial and entrepreneurial responses to global development challenges - Managing commodity and energy market s - Natural disasters and business (including tourism) - Energy efficiency and competitiveness - Green growth, consumer...

In this workshop we want to consider both the economic dimension and the social dynamics of ageing societies. We welcome submission of theoretical, empirical and policy papers. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the relation between population ageing and the...

The Energy & Finance conference will focus on recent trends in energy finance with speakers from both the energy industry and academia. The conference will feature both invited speakers and contributed talks. We invite all interested researchers to submit papers for potential presentation at the...

The CES “Critical Economics Summer School”, launched in 2009, brings together in annual meetings economists and other social scientists to discuss topics of shared interest. This series of summer schools aims at promoting a forum for critical research on the economy and in economics. This...

The school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start a project related to welfare and social policy in Eastern and Western Europe. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of welfare state and social policy reform, role of social actors, policies for work and...

Topics: - General trends in market-based environmental policies and instruments - New forms of neoliberal conservation (including web 2.0, species banking, etc) - Agro-food systems, the meat-industrial complex, and aquaculture - Agro-fuels, energy and climate change - The relation between...

This workshop is the first in series of three within the domain of mobility. Each one will be a forum of intensive exchange, each with a different focus on sustainable mobility. The follow-up workshop is scheduled October 2011 in Szentendre. The workshops will offer: - practical assistance in...

Topics: - Macroeconomic aspects of ageing and retirement - Life cycle behavior of individuals - Institutional aspects and behavior of pension funds and financial institutions - Health economics