There are around 110 million refugees and internally displaced persons around the world, with more than 10 million of them from Ukraine. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on refugee migration, return migration, and integration, with a special focus on Ukrainian...

We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming German Development Economics Conference scheduled for May 23-24, 2024, and hosted by Leibniz University Hannover. We are thrilled to announce that our keynote speakers for this year's conference are Sandra Sequeira from the London School of...

Vor drei Jahren wurde das Kohle-Aus in Deutschland beschlossen. Was bedeutet das für die Braunkohleausstiegsregionen des Lausitzer, Mitteldeutschen und Rheinischen Reviers? Wie kann die weitere Prozessgestaltung und -begleitung im Strukturwandel aussehen? In den Fachworkshops der Tagung werden...

The abrupt end of the low-interest-rate period together with the rise in inflation and the disruptions caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine fundamentally change the business environment for financial intermediaries. Technological advances and new climate-related risks also put...

Bernhard Schlink wird am 26. Oktober bei uns zu Gast sein. An seinen Vortrag mit dem Titel „Zusammenwachsen, Weiterwachsen" schließt sich eine Diskussion mit IWH-Präsident Reint E. Gropp an. Sie können dabei vor Ort teilnehmen und Ihre Fragen stellen.

This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

As Europe’s largest and most international conference with an African focus, ECAS 9 will be held as a face-to-face event. “African Futures” aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. The continent has been...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with keynote speakers, parallel sessions with contributed papers, and poster sessions will reflect the current state of research in development economics...