PROGRAM: - "Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments" Orie Shelef (Stanford University), with Amy Nguyen-Chyung - "Discrimination and Worker Evaluation" Kevin Lang (Boston University), with Costas Cavounidis - "Statistical Discrimination and...

Massive transformations in how and where energy is produced and consumed are drastically changing our energy economy. This dynamic energy landscape is challenging government and industry decision makers to formulate a clear path forward. Policy and investment decisions need to balance the use of...

The first International FDZ Data User Workshop will bring together researchers and emerging scholars who work with German Social Security data in the network of Research Data Centers (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Researchers will...

The conference will establish, fresh, more accurate, historically sound, multi- and inter-disciplinary and truly international perspectives on major themes of 21st century international affairs; it will identify the key historical developments that contributed to contemporary multipolarity; it...

Topics are focused on recent challenges to modern national economies and business enterprises: - Globalization and Challenges of the Modern World - Enterprise in Turbulent Environment - Entrepreneurship Caught Between Creativity and Bureaucracy

Each spring, thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations, and invited participants from the academia and private sectors, gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. At the heart of the gathering are...

To provide the best opportunity for a comprehensive exchange of ideas concerning new empirical research in energy economics, the 2015 workshop is designed to allow time for a full presentation and discussion of each contribution. All sessions are held in plenary sessions (no concurrent...

Proposals (abstracts) for paper presentations are invited from all areas of economics and business, e.g.: - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development - Institutions and Growth - Human and Social Capital - Innovation Systems - Sustainable...

The rapidly changing landscape of commodity markets has important implications for research in finance, monetary economics, industry organization, development economics, international trade, and macroeconomics. The conference will bring together economists working in these areas who share...

This conference seeks to explore a wealth of issues related Business and Economic Development, contributions should therefore be of interest to scholars, practitioners and researchers in management in both developed and developing countries targeting a worldwide readership.