Theme: Entrepreneurship and Management Education in Africa

Theme: The New Frontiers of Executive Development

Theme Vision 2020: The Undergraduate Management Education Programme of the Future

Papers from economists and researches from other disciplines working on issues of language policy are solicited. The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible specific themes of individual contributions: - languages and economic efficiency (e.g. languages in the labor market, language as a...

Among the main questions to be addressed are: - Financing new infrastructures in the international debt and post-financial crisis era - Global comparison of different infrastructure roll-out and maintenance approaches including historical analysis - Analysing regulatory barriers to collaboration...

Topics: - Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments regarding the achievement of environmental targets - Assessments of environmental policies regarding their effects on economic welfare indicators - How to create sets of instruments with synergetic effects and how to avoid sets with...

Questions to be addressed in the workshop include: - What drives carbon prices? Is there evidence that firms reduced emissions relative to a business-as-usual scenario? Has the EU ETS induced the development new technologies, and/or the adoption of existing technology? - What is the relationship...

This workshop will investigate the determinants and evolution of gender gaps, by focusing on two promising prospects: the institutional design, which –if appropriately set- can allow different outcomes to reflect only differences in abilities rather than in gender, as shown for instance in...

Keynote lectures will be delivered by: - Peter Bossaerts (California Institute of Technology) - Alessandra Casella (Columbia University) - John Wooders (University of Technology, Sydney)