The theme for the ESPAnet 2015 conference is “The lost and new worlds of welfare”. The conference invites proposals for streams and papers that address issues across the full range of comparative welfare state research, from various disciplinary perspectives. Suggestions for Stream Themes -...

This course covers the most important theories and recent empirical work on labor market effects of immigration, trade, local agglomerations and technology touching on the recent trends in the structure of employment and wages in US and Europe.

The conference aims to bring together academics as well as practitioners to discuss topical issues and disseminate high quality research in economics, finance and business with a focus on European economies. Topics: - macroeconomic effects and economic policy considerations under global...

Topics: - International and intra-national convergence and divergence. - Regional and firm level impacts of the processes of globalization of the value chain. - Path dependency and economic renewal. - Geography of innovating firms and innovation strategies. - Localization of economic activities...

In the academic fields there are annual conferences in accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing, production, supply chains, to name a few central areas. However there is no conference on competitiveness. While competitiveness cuts across the different management fields and...