Competition is a key component of well-functioning markets and fosters productivity, innovation, technological progress and growth. Globalisation and technology have been powerful forces transforming competition in product markets all over the world. These two forces, especially in the context...

Conference discussion will be organised around the following themes: Poverty, welfare and social inequality; Communities, families and children; Digital technologies and social policy; Environment and social policy; Disability and rights; Human services; Ageing; Health and social policy;...

APEF 2019 is the gathering place for economists and financial experts from academia, government, and the private sector to present their research results, exchange ideas and network. This year’s sessions will look at how US-China trade war is affecting the world economy. We welcome all papers...

Themes: - Digital currencies, fintech, and technology; - Regulation, markets, and financial intermediation; - International economics; - Macroeconomics, monetary policy, macrofinance, as well as monetary policy frameworks and communication; - Inflation dynamics; - Policy lessons from the history...

The LERA Program Committee invites proposals for stimulating and creative proposals related to engaging various, sometimes differing, stakeholders involved in employment relations with the end goal of enriching investors, managers, employees, policy makers, and unions. LERA’s program format...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...

This workshop offers young researchers within the fields of the economics of innovation and competition the opportunity to intensively discuss their dissertation projects within a peer group of experienced and renowned scholars, as well as other PhD students and postdoc researchers in an...

The Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and academics...

For SIOP 2019, we are also encouraging submissions that highlight cross-disciplinary collaborations. This may include submissions using multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary approaches to science for smarter workforce. These sessions may feature collaborations, research...

We invite colleagues in this field (JEL-Classification F0 to F2) to submit papers for presentation at the workshop.