This symposium invites papers from scholars from all disciplines (for example, law, politics, economics, sociology) to offer critical perspectives on taxation. Topics might include (but are not limited to): - The role of taxation in addressing wealth and income inequality; - Taxation and gender...

Recent studies project populations reaching levels of 12-14 billion individuals by the end of the century. This raises a set of questions regarding food security, pandemic threats, and environmental crisis. These issues relate back to Thomas Malthus and the concerns he raised relating to...

The theme for the 21st Uddevalla Symposium seeks new perspectives on innovation and entrepreneurship. Topics: - Firm growth and new determinants - Regional growth and regional challenges - Minorities, inclusion and discrimination - Gender issues - Geographies of innovation, resources and...

Topics: - Labor and corporate governance, - Interrelationship between wages, employment, and financial policy, - Risk sharing between employees and the firm, - Interplay between cost of capital and cost of labor, - Effects of human capital and worker mobility on financial policy and...

The Symposium will focus on finance and real economy issues. Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: Financial Cycle and Real Business Cycle, Effect of Financial Development on Growth, Productivity and Innovation, Associations between Financial, Property...

Topic: long-term care for the elderly across borders. This conference will turn to the increasing transnationalization of long-term care arrangements for the elderly from the twofold perspective of moving in to care and moving out for care. The employment of 24/7 migrant care workers in many...

The general topic of the symposium is "Retirement and Asset Management". Papers submitted to the symposium can address related aspects such as the role of financial institutions, lifetime investment strategies, saving for future generations, the role of demographics, or financial literacy,...

Program: Keynote Speeches: - David Neumark (Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and IZA) "Age Discrimination Laws and Age Discrimination in the United States" - Juan F. Jimeno (Head of the Research Division of the Bank of Spain and IZA) "What/How Dismissal Regulation...