The workshop’s aim is to bring together scholars from economics and politics interested in interdisciplinary work on public policy, political economy and public choice. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers by both economists and political scientists. The workshop is intended for...

Programme: - Part A: 25 years of Austria’s EU membership; - Part B: 25 years of EU Northern Enlargement; - Session 1: Global historical context and EU impact on economic performance; - Session 2: Monetary and financial integration; - Session 3: EU membership and economic governance.

Workshop program: - Paolo Sestito (Bank of Italy) "An Evaluation of the Italian Jobs Act" - Thomas Breda (CNRS, PSE, Evaluation Committee of Ordonnances Macron) "A Comparison with the Loi Travail: what can we expect" - Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi University, Member of Italian Parliament) "The...

The workshop will bring together leading economists from central banks and academic institutions to consider critical issues related to policy coordination between instruments and between countries. The financial crisis and the ensuing slow recovery brought to the forefront policy coordination...

The IZA/OECD Employment Seminar brings together academic experts and policy makers to discuss issues of current importance in European labour markets. We would welcome empirical contributions to this seminar on the short- and medium-term impacts of labour market reforms – especially those...

We welcome submissions on any topic, empirical or theoretical, dealing with the effects of the personal income tax on household and firm behavior. New research on traditional topics, such as tax effects on labor supply, household savings, and portfolio choice, is welcome. However, more recent...

Agent-based models have become an important framework for analyzing complex macroeconomic dynamics resulting from the interaction of heterogeneous agents with bounded rationality. This framework frees the modeler from the constraints imposed by the substantive rationality, equilibrium, and...

The workshop aims to bring together academics and practitioners to present and discuss recent advances in research on Sovereign Investment Funds: their strategies and their consequences for the financial and economic system, the consistency of their moves with the goals of the macroeconomic...

Description: - Public Policies & the Direction of Financial Flows - Regional Development Transition to Market Economies integration into Processes of Economic Development

IZA and DFID organize the first workshop in their joint program on growth and labor markets in low-income countries. The GLM-LIC program aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labor market issues in low-income countries and provide a solid basis for capacity building and the development of...