While often a regional or national approach has been used to analyze the economic effects of migration, recent evolutions have shown that the role of firms is extremely important in better understanding this phenomenon. On many occasions, it is firms choosing the migrant workers and initiating...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

Topics: - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government, - Publicly Provided Goods • Optimal Taxation • Redistributive Effects, - Asymmetric and Private Information • Economics of Public-Private Contracts • Mechanism Design, - Public Policy Evaluations • Econometrics of Games and...

Conference Program: Pre-conference Workshop in cooperation with ICABR "The Green Revolution in Africa" - First Session Alexander Sarris "Food Security in Africa" - Second Session Luigi Mennella "Which perspective for Africa: Economic and Social Dimensions", Giovanni Andrea Cornia "The African...

This workshop will focus on how governments set fiscal policy in the presence of mobile agents and how these agents respond. The workshop will feature both theoretical and empirical papers and welcomes papers containing both approaches. A goal of the workshop is to facilitate interactions...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

From the 1960s onwards, international economics and international business have been developing as separate fields. More recently, four trends that may lead to a possible convergence of international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have become evident. First, the modern IE...