Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, special emphasis will be given on areas such as: - The role of central banks and monetary policy - The role of fiscal policy - The conduct of monetary policy under zero bound conditions - The role of, and prospects for, economic growth - The...

Global economic risks is the overall theme of the 8th Annual Meeting of Swiss Finance Institute. Recent decades have witnessed an acceleration in economic globalization processes that has run far in advance of existing global governance arrangements. The resulting tension, together with a...

Topics list for parallel sessions: - Global and local analyses of food security - Enabling policies for local and global food security - Sustainable intensification of food production systems - Novel ways of feeding 9 billion - Learning from the past to understand the future - Land sparing, land...

The theme of this year's Australian Social Policy Conference addresses these issues and invites papers that may address the following areas: Welfare reform; Income distribution and social inequalities; Identity and diversity; Families, work and care; Disability and mental health; Organisation and...

The theme for the EfS 2013 is "Sustainable Cities: Designing for People and the Planet" which is dedicated to debating the challenges posed by the increasing concentration of the world's population in cities. Up for discussion are topics grouped under four main categories: Smart Cities,...

The theme of this conference is "Celebrate Health Economics". 2013 will mark fifty years since the publication of Kenneth Arrow’s ‘Uncertainty and the welfare economics of medical care’ in The American Economic Review. Its significance is such that many regard it as the seminal work in...

The focus of the conference will be on microeconometric studies of health workforce supply and demand. Among the topics we wish to explore are: pay and wage setting; competition in health labour markets; human capital formation; occupation and specialty choice; career transitions; gender...

The ICPG 2013 is an excellent platform to communicate your research in population geographies to the rest of the academic world. From September 1st, 2012 onwards it is possible to upload your abstracts. Completed papers as well as works in progress are welcome. Plenary sessions on Healthy Ageing...

Europa ist in einer anhaltenden Krise und steht vor ausserordentlich grossen Herausforderungen. Wie geht es in der EU weiter? Zudem zeichnet sich ab, dass auch das bilaterale Verhältnis zwischen der Schweiz und der EU vor wichtigen Entscheidungen auf beiden Seiten steht. Was sind die nächsten...

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics; - Current account imbalances and international capital flows; - Global financial crises; - Open-economy macroeconomic models; - Exchange rates; - International dimensions of monetary and fiscal policy; - Sovereign risk.