Topics: 1. Introduction: Key Theoretical Concepts and Empirics of Political Economy 2. Collective Choice and Voting 3. The Role of the State and Different Political Regimes 4. Institutional Change and Democratization versus Persistence and Dysfunctional Democracies 5. Beliefs, Culture and...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Firms in International Trade - Marc Melitz (Department of Economics, Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently...

A short workshop will be held in Vienna on the morning of 12 December 2013 in Vienna to tie in with the 1st SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Research Prize - with papers currently being requested on the subject of "Banking and Financial Markets between Integration and Segmentation after...

The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey and micro data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive), - methodology of business surveys - uncertainty...

This conference will focus on empirical and theoretical contributions providing an assessment of various issues related to inflation developments, offering new perspectives on structural analysis, forecasting and economic policy design and assessment. Possible topics include: - Heterogeneity of...

This international workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, empirical research in the following fields: - Labour market institutions and policies - Inequality and education - Regional disparities - Labour mobility and dynamics - Qualification and skills

Der Workshop ist ein Teil des Projekts „Postwachstumspioniere – Kommunikationsprojekt zur Erweiterung des Postwachstumsdiskurses um die Rolle mittelständischer Unternehmen“ (www.postwachstumspioniere.de), das von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) gefördert und vom IÖW gemeinsam...

Papers from the following research areas are invited: - Game Theory - Behavioral Economics - Evolutionary Dynamics - General Equilibrium Theory - Decision Theory - Mathematical Finance - Industrial Organization - Computational Economics - Social and Economic Networks - Monetary Economic -...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new develop­ments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic research­ers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with panel data, time series and business cycles,...

The workshop provides a forum to discuss state of the art research on the impact of shocks on households from a microeconomic perspective. The workshop is organized as part of the project “Economics of Climate Change: Coping with Shocks in Mongolia –Vulnerability, Assets and Migration”.