Global productivity growth—the key long-term driver of living standards—fell sharply following the global financial crisis and has remained sluggish ever since. This decline has been associated with subpar global economic growth and record-low real interest rates. If sustained, low...

This workshop aims at bringing together leading researchers that are contributing both theoretically or empirically to the study of firm and industry dynamics, their determinants, and the policies aimed at fostering them. Topics: - Firm dynamics, productivity, and long-term growth; - Firm...

The theme of the 17th ISS conference is “Innovation, Catch-up, and sustainable development”. Scholars of all levels of experience are invited to submit proposals. The Conference is open to submissions that deal with theoretical, methodological, empirical, and policy issues with Innovation,...

Topics: - Globalization (Sharing globalization benefits and compensate the losers; Demographic Changes, social inclusiveness and migration; Protectionism and welfare in a globalized world; Declining labor shares and technological change; Skills polarization and wages), - Trade (Trade and...

The Conference provides a forum for dissemination of modern research in economic growth and development broadly defined. Papers with an India focus are especially welcome.

Papers are invited in the following theme areas: - National Accounts; - Productivity; - Poverty and Inequality; - Human Capital and Education; - Regional Integration and Global Value Chains; - Well-being, including Health, Food Security and Hunger; - Labour market, Skills and Jobs; - Structural...

The organizing committee invites abstract/extended abstract submission from researchers and practitioners in the fields of economics, international trade, finance and development.

The conference will focus on recent challenges for macroeconomic policies and structural reform design, with an emphasis on micro-macro linkages. Issues of particular interest include the links between international trade and competitiveness, the implications of dispersed productivity growth,...

During the three days of the Conference almost one hundred papers were presented in parallel sessions either in Italian or in English on various subjects, among which: growth in Asian countries, corporate governance, China, Russia, theories of the firm, transition economies, industrial and...

Main topics: - The Robustness of Globalization Theory. Trade Liberalization and its Benefits; - Globalization, Inequality and Social Inclusion; - The United States and the Protectionist option: a New Trade Deal?; - How Scary is Disruptive Technology? Perspectives on Employment; - The Upcoming...