This conference aims to bring together researchers and policymakers to discuss the effects of the financial crisis on household finances and behaviour. In recent years, household income and wealth have been severely affected by simultaneous adverse conditions in the labour, housing and stock...

Ambiguity is pervasive in the economy and widely discussed in the economic science. It plays a role at all levels of economic decision-making, starting with individual choices, and extending up to the way institutions and cultures respond to the less than perfectly quantifiable uncertainty of...

The socioeconomic gradient in health has been described by some as one of the most intriguing questions for the social sciences. While its universal existence is well known, less is known about the relative roles played by various potential mechanisms in causing it. During this workshop we bring...

The principal purpose of this mid-term conference will be to explore the various social impacts of the Eurozone debt crisis. Specifically, papers, power-point presentations and works in progress are invited on the following topics: - The Political-economy of the EZ Crisis - The EZ Crisis,...

Mobility seems to have become the new paradigm for social sciences. Not only for scholars working on immigration, but social sciences in general indicate a tendency to explain social phenomena by referring to different forms of mobility. A few decades ago sedentary was the norm for social...

We invite PhD students with projects that deal with issues on or related to the Summer School theme to apply for participation. We value a multi-disciplinary setting and welcome students from a range of academic disciplines, like sociology, economy, law, political science and (European) social...

The meeting welcomes academics, researchers and practitioners in various areas of applied economics and finance. Topics: - Capital markets - Corporate finance - Econometrics and applied statistics - Quantitative methods, mathematical finance, operations research - Risk management - Financial...

The broad topic of the Symposium is Theory and Experiments and centers around the question if and how economic experiments can inform economic theory and vice versa.

The objective of the 2012 ISBEFA, the 1st of the series, is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for presentations of our current state of knowledge, as well as in motivating new research and applications within the variety of disciplines related to business, economics and financial applications.

Papers that consider these issues in relation to the development of smart, sustainable and inclusive places (the three dimensions of the Europe 2020 Strategy) are particularly encouraged. Gateway Themes A. Climate change, energy and sustainability B. Migration, housing and labour markets C....