Africa Finance and Economic Association (AFEA) will sponsor two sessions and another session together with National Economic Association (NEA) at the January 2018 ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia devoted to all aspects of economic development or economic growth concerns of African economies.

Papers from all areas of behavioral finance and economics will be considered. Researchers from other related disciplines such as experimental finance and neuro-finance are encouraged to submit a paper.

URPE Sessions: - Sraffa, Austrian Capital Theory, and Policy Analysis - Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Place-based Analyses of Racial-ethic Inequality in Wealth and Health - Class, Power, Gender, and Poverty, - Income Distribution, Low-Income Borrowing, and Housing Exclusion, - Radical Political...

The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and...

The workshop will focus on the broad economic implications of commodity markets. We invite researchers to submit papers on any aspect of the economics of commodities (including energy, metals, and agricultural products) and their interaction with the broader economy.

The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (formerly known as the International Society for the New Institutional Economics) promotes rigorous theoretical and empirical investigation of the nature, behavior, and governance of organizations and institutions using approaches drawn...

The program will include submitted papers as well as the Walras-Bowley Lecture by Paul Klemperer (Oxford University), the Cowles Lecture by Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University), the North Lecture by Robert Townsend (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the Weidenbaum Lecture by Susanne...

The overall theme of the conference is "Global Economic Analysis in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities" with subthemes on: - Sustainable Development, - Climate change policies and adaptation, - Whither regionalism in the absence of a global trade agreement? - Agricultural innovation,...