Guiding Questions: - How did trade policy affect the expansion of services trade and labor market outcomes over the last decades? - Which services sectors are most important for employment generation and how can services trade reform contribute to expanding them? - What are the employment links...

Das Rahmenthema der Jahrestagung 2015 ist „Internationales Management in und aus Emerging Countries“. Die Kerneigenschaften der Schwellenländer – u.a. hohe Wachstumsraten, dynamischer Wandel der ökonomischen Strukturen, instabiler institutioneller Rahmen, niedrige, aber rasch steigende...

Die Schweiz beschäftigt sich intensiv mit ihrer Migrationspolitik, wobei heftig über eine allfällige Eingrenzung der Zuwanderung diskutiert wird. Immer wieder werden die Einwandernden für hiesige strukturelle Probleme wie mangelnde Wohnungen, Defizite bei den Sozialversicherungen oder...

This INFER workshop provides an opportunity for all economists interested in international economics to exchange ideas, to create links in research and to meet fellows in related subject. Researchers are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers broadly consistent with this year’s...

The conference aims at bringing together researchers in corporate finance, banking and macroeconomics to explore topics at the intersection of these fields. The focus will be on the impact of banking and financial markets on the real economy with a mix of theory and empirical studies. The themes...

Focus 2012: The Dynamics of Migration Migration is a complex phenomenon that has the potential to transform individuals and societies by affecting employment, development, culture, trade, investment, and environment. At the same time, these factors also influence migration patterns and the lives...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...

Banking history is often dominated by the study of strategy, economics, banking dynasties, and financial stars. The life of a bank is made up of more than this. It is the place of work and sometimes of the social life of hundreds, even thousands, of individuals whose experience is far removed...