Diverging demographic developments in Europe and in developing countries create a potential for huge mutual gains from migration. At the same time, the immigration of low-skilled workers and emigration of high-skilled workers pose a challenge to the European social model. How can receiving...

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...

The central questions of the conference therefore are: 1. In what ways do social heterogeneities and social inequalities contribute to social vulnerability to environmental and climate change and the likelihood that some people or groups are more prone to migrate than others? 2. What are the...

Die nationalstaatlich verfassten Gesellschaften befinden sich spätestens seit den 1970er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in einem tief greifenden Transformationsprozess, den viele Autoren mit den Begriffen Globalisierung und Transnationalisierung beschrieben haben. Die Veränderungen...

The SFB TR 15 "Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems" and the University of Mannheim are pleased to announce the MaCCI Workshop on "Reputation in Organizations and Markets", which will be held in Bad Homburg on November 8-9 2012.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Topics: - Offshoring, Outsourcing, and the Organization of Production - The Political Economy of Trade Policy - Non-Homothetic Demand and International...

The workshop invites both conceptual and empirical papers in the areas of International Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management. We are particularly interested in papers that may help us to enhance the dialogue between and integration of these areas.

This year's conference theme is "Challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Energy Turnaround, Globalisation and Demography". The forum serves as a platform to discuss new ideas in this field between theory and practice. To serve this purpose, the forum on topics relating to small and...

Im Zuge des Wiederaufbaus nach 1945, des rasch wachsenden Welthandels und der Entstehung neuer internationaler Institutionen (Bretton Woods/IWF/Weltbank, GATT), der Herausbildung einer multipolaren Weltwirtschaft und zugleich regionaler Integrationsprozesse (EWG, RGW, USA, Asien/pazifischer...

Konferenz im Rahmen der Oder-Partnerschaft in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Die geplante Konferenz soll eine interdisziplinäre Bilanz der Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit nach über einem Jahr ziehen. Die Öffnung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes für die Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer aus Polen hat...