Topics: - National and European legal regime’s evolution - Incentives and organisation of patent offices - IPR litigation and enforcement - University patenting - Patents in new technological fields - The governance of IPR systems - The impact of IPR on competition and innovation - The new...

The conference theme for the PBFEAM 2008 is "Innovation for a Sustainable Future: Visions for 2020." Each discipline will host plenary sessions involving invited papers dealing with contemporary issues relating to the 2008 conference theme.

The Organizing Committee would like to encourage submissions (with either paper or abstract as a pdf attachment) from scholars in all areas of macroeconomics with significant theoretical content.

The organizers invite submissions of papers in any area of Macroeconomics that has a strong theoretical foundation. The aim of the workshop is to offer a forum for new developments in the field. Although the range of topics is open, we are particularly interested in papers that in the following...