African economies grew at an average rate of above 5% for over a decade now and the continent today contains most of the fastest growing economies in the world. While we celebrate the growth we are cognizant that growth alone is not sufficient to change the economic lives of most of Africa’s...

The African Finance Economic Association (AFEA) will organize AFEA and joint AFEA/NEA sessions at the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meetings in San Francisco, California, January 3-5, 2016. We are currently seeking papers on ISSUES ON AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT including Youth...

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...

Conference Theme: The Intelligent World: Realizing Hopes, Overcoming Challenges. This conference will provide a forum for industry practitioners, policy makers from both governments and NGOs, and academia to explore the challenges and issues related to achieving this reality globally. Some 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...

Conference organisers seek original research papers on the following (and other related) themes within the context of South-South development: - nature, structure and sectoral distribution of global capital flows - the role of international or regional financial institutions - labor market...

In this panel, we will discuss: - to what extent entrepreneurs are able to substantially influence economic development and wealth creation in an economy; - to what extent the regulatory environment in developed and developing economies explains the differences in outcomes, or whether other...

This is the eighth edition of a successful conference series that started in 2004. We anticipate a program of nine papers, starting at 1pm on the 22nd and ending at 3:30pm on the 23rd.