For this year, the Board has decided to organize a virtual online conference. Theme: Causes and consequences of inequality in the labour market and beyond. Topics: - inequality in the labour market and discrimination across various dimensions: gender, age, geographical residence, ethnicity,...

Theme: Human Capital in modern societies: theories, policies, and economic implications. The conference provides an opportunity to analyze and discuss issues related to the functioning of the labour market as well as to develop research collaborations.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together China experts from central banks, other policy institutions and the private sector to discuss the foremost questions confronting the Chinese economy and their implications for the global economy, with a special interest towards policy-related topics...

Theme: "Gender Gaps in Educational Choices" The theme for this year conference is the analysis of the factors determining different educational choices and labour market outcomes across gender. There will be a special invited plenary session on Retirement and Reform of the Pension System. The...

The theme for this year conference is about labour market reforms with a particular emphasis on successful practices implemented in European countries. The Great Recession has destroyed jobs around the world, but has hit more strongly the younger workers: who were the first to exit and are now...

Conference Program: SESSIONS A.1 Tracking in schooling A.2 Pre-market abilities A.3 Migrations and Networks A.4 Job insecurity and female labor supply A.5 Job satisfaction A.6 Macroeconomics of the labour market B.1 Determinants of schooling performances 1 B.2 Intergenerational mobility and...

Lutz Kilian and Ana Herrera are confirmed keynote speakers. Several experts from central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of England, European Central Bank), energy firms (e.g., Statoil), investment banks (e.g., Nordea and Handelsbanken), would also give their contributions.

Topics: - The definition and measurement of global liquidity - Global liquidity and the direction, size and composition of international capital flows - The impact of global liquidity on asset prices and exchange rates - The impact of global liquidity on monetary and financial stability - The...

The Conference consists of a thematic session and a session including free contributions. The thematic session will be introduced by an invited lecture given by Peter Sloane (IZA, Bonn), followed by the presentation of the selected papers. A panel discussion on "The Future of Labour Economics in...

This conference will provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues regarding alternative options central banks face when defining their price stability objective. Research papers on the optimal level of inflation; on the zero bound on nominal...