Smart products, such as smart household appliances, smart health devices or highly automated vehicles, are increasingly finding their way into everyday life. These products raise a number of economic and legal challenges, e.g. regarding product development, consumer acceptance, data privacy and...

Programm: 1) Themencluster „Die Zukunft des Büros - Home Office, Out Of Office?“; 2) Themencluster „Was benötigt die Innenstadt HEUTE um ihre Multidimensionalität zu bewahren?“; 3) Themencluster „Rise of ESG“ - Opportunities and risks“; 4) Workshops „Pandemie Disruption:...

Das YES! – Young Economic Summit ist ein gemeinsames Projekt der ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft und der Joachim Herz Stiftung aus Hamburg. Topics: - Mobilität im ländlichen Raum – wie kann Elektromobilität dort funktionieren? - Neu im Land – wie können Geflüchtete auf...

Welcoming are contributions on the pandemic and on the prospects for employment recovery, but not only. In IREC traditions, papers with a comparative or international dimension are prioritised: research presented should be, if not comparative, at least comparable. The main topical clusters...

Program: Panel 1: The Many Fates of Heavy Industry; Panel 2: Working Class Experiences and Fragmentations; Panel 3 Post-industrial urban revivals?; Panel 4: The Struggle for Survival or the Calm before the Storm? Reactions to the Crisis of the 1970s in East and West; Panel 5: Post-Industrial...

Topics: - regulation, firms and financial intermediation; - law, politics and finance; - unconventional fiscal and monetary policy; - macroprudential policy and real estate; - digitalisation of financial institutions and markets; - financial networks and systemic risk; - pricing of climate risk in...