Global productivity growth—the key long-term driver of living standards—fell sharply following the global financial crisis and has remained sluggish ever since. This decline has been associated with subpar global economic growth and record-low real interest rates. If sustained, low...

The workshop is intended to bring together economists working on International Trade modeling and Globalization and Economic Development analysis. Of particular interest are works developing general equilibrium models of a static and/or dynamic nature with perfectly and/or imperfectly...

Conference topics will include, but will not be limited to, the relationships among - industry or economy sectors, - regions or geographical entities, and - political or economic institutions. Also of interest are theoretical, methodological, empirical and historical aspects of structural change...

All papers in theoretical and empirical macro and growth will be considered, however emphasis will be given on developments regarding the recent debt crisis.