China has established its role as a major world lender, and policy changes affecting its external position would therefore have pronounced effects over a range of countries and on the global financial landscape in general. In this paper, I characterize China’s external asset holdings and macro...

Thematic Workshops: Workshop 1 – Areas of concern and proposals for less unequal worlds Workshop 2 – Unequal access to “invisible or online” education for those who already suffered from unequal access to “visible or in-person” education Workshop 3 – The Pandemic and the growing...

Der Erhalt der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen ist eine ‚Generationenaufgabe‘ der kommenden Jahrzehnte. Vor dem Hintergrund sozialer und digitaler Veränderungen sowie gesellschaftlicher Pluralisierung und politischer Polarisierung stellt sich die Frage, wie der Schutz der Natur und...

Professors John Hassler and Per Krusell will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government...

We invite you to submit an abstract in the range of the following streams within the ICSD2022 program: 1. ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: Financial Sustainability, SME, MicroFinance, Emerging Countries, International Trade, 2. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: Water and Soil conservation, Climate Change,...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock'' literature, we hypothesize...

Focus: the use of high-dimensional data. Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of large and unstructured novel data sources, or the application of techniques derived from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These...

The aim of the event is to generate a space of discussion between academics, researchers and professionals, promoting scientific and applied researches related to cultural economics and local initiatives contributing to the improvement of the sector. Moreover, information about mitigating...

Most but not all economists view carbon pricing as most effective to combat carbon emissions, whereas other policies are widely applied and highly debated. The paper presented in this ZEW QUEST Seminar quantifies the effectiveness of climate policies in the form of pricing carbon and subsidizing...

The JSHET, an academic society consisting of more than five hundred researchers on the history of economic or/and social thought. Programme of JSHET 2022 Conference: - Japanese Discourses on the Marxian Theory of Finance; - A Thin Line between Virtue and Vice? the Moral Evaluation of Economic...