The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

Topics: 1. Mobility of Higher Education students across Europe and the world is increasing, but it creates imbalances (some countries are net importers of students, like Austria and Belgium, while others are net exporters); moreover, many graduates spend their career in jurisdictions other than...

The conference aims at bringing together Network members to present and discuss their ongoing research and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them, in particular among researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their...

The conference offers an excellent opportunity for researchers to present their original works on issues related to global interdependence and the decoupling-recoupling phenomenon. The conference’s general theme is linkages between national economies with a special focus on the dependence...

The purpose of this workshop is to achieve a better understanding of conflict and attempt to reach policy conclusions. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, • Contracting in the shadow of conflict • Understanding civil wars • The "Natural Resource Curse" • Alliances and their...

The workshops focus will be China’s interaction with the Global Economy; both how China affects overall global economic performance and how the global economy affects China’s development. The coverage will be broad covering such topics as trade, both inward FDI flows into China and outward...

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...

All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad domain of the Economics of Education.

The conference’s general theme is contemporary issues related to China’s role in the global economy. Possible topics include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following: • The Chinese Renminbi – its valuation and prospect as an international currency • China and international...

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...