Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

STEG research themes: - Data and measurement related to structural transformation - Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy - Labour, home production, and structural transformation - Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps - Trade and spatial frictions - Political economy and...

Emerging markets have been out of the news for almost two decades. They fared better than advanced economies during the Great Financial Crisis and benefited from the increased global liquidity in its aftermath. This fortunate constellation of events seems to be coming to an end and there are...

This year's meeting will be organized jointly by the MG programme and the CEPR-led research programme on Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG), which is funded by the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office as part of the UK aid effort. We invite submissions...

We invite submissions from interested researchers, including non-CEPR affiliates, on any topic within the area of Development Economics. Based on information currently available, we plan an in-person/hybrid event at the IFS. This plan is subject to changes depending on the COVID-19 situation....

This joint workshop with will focus on how market integration - both internal and global - shapes the structural transformation process in developing countries. In particular, we are interested in the role of agriculture and connections between agriculture and on economic development. Specific...

We particularly encourage submissions of papers that provide good theory or empirical evidence on the following topics: - Technical progress over the long run and its labor market effects - Uneven adoption of ITC technologies across the OECD countries, and the impact on growth and labor...

The aim of the conference is to present and discuss the latest policy-relevant research to foster the creation of multi-sector, multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges around the world based on research and empirical evidence. In addition to the regular sessions in all fields of labor...

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...

In this panel, we will discuss: - to what extent entrepreneurs are able to substantially influence economic development and wealth creation in an economy; - to what extent the regulatory environment in developed and developing economies explains the differences in outcomes, or whether other...