Conference programme: - Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance and the extensive margin of fertility; - Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach; - Can Redistribution Lead to Economic Development?

The widespread use of dollars for invoicing international trade and pricing internationally traded goods and services has sharp implications for (i) the transmission of business cycle shocks, be they regional or global, and (ii) the conduct of stabilization policies. Much of the recent open...

Paper proposals are invited for a conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of J. M. Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Papers are solicited across a range of disciplines – including economics, history, political science, and international relations –...

The symposium focuses on the various paradigms of economic and social policy at work in the Scandinavian countries, in light of the most recent macroeconomic developments given by increased inequality, population ageing and automation. The symposium focuses on the various paradigms of economic...

Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Household heterogeneity, debt accumulation, housing, and aggregate demand. 2. Firm heterogeneity, production networks, and supply contagion. 3. Financial intermediation, credit dry-ups, and macro-prudential policy. 4. Inequality as a source of imbalances.

Capitalist economies are dynamic systems that evolve while putting into motion structural, technological, and socio-political changes. Not only Veblen believed that Economics is an evolutionary science but also Sombart, Schmoller, Marx, Schumpeter, Nelson and to some extent Keynes, Braudel,...

The conference would be based around 3 themes: 1) Religious Networks 2) Religious Conflict and Extremism 3) Religion and Political Economy.

Economic thinking is in crisis. New frameworks are needed to guide our thinking. New approaches are being developed, but efforts are fragmented and need to be brought together if we hope to piece together a paradigm. On October 19-22, 2016, at the Central European University in Budapest, the...

This conference aims to provide an overview of frontier research analyzing the micro-level underpinnings of aggregate technology and aggregate economic performance. Some of the sub-topics include: - Firms and productivity - Firms and inequality - Firms and innovation - Firms and technology in...