This conference aims to bring together insights from academics and policymakers to discuss inflation risks, their drivers, and how they propagate to the real economy and financial markets, and the extent to which policymakers can respond to these challenges. Topics: - Measuring inflation risk...

Joint with the Swiss National Bank, the Study Center sponsors a biannual conference organized jointly with the Journal of Monetary Economics. Each conference focuses on a specific topic of relevance for central banks and features six to eight papers that are contributed by leading specialists in...

Das mit prominenten Vertretern aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft besetzte Podium widmet sich der Frage, wie es nach der Corona-​Krise mit der Globalisierung weitergeht. Wird es als Lehre aus der weltweiten Pandemie eine Rückkehr zu Isolation und Protektionismus geben? Oder zeigen gerade die...

The conference provides a forum for discussing a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues related to monetary policy. This year, the focus will be on the monetary policy challenges facing low interest rate economies. Topics: inflation dynamics; low interest rates for long; monetary policy...

DUE TO CORVID-19 VIRUS, WE HAVE TO CANCEL THIS CONFERENCE.

The conference theme is: Inequality over the life course. We also welcome submissions on all relevant areas of sociological research, notably the labour market, education, gender, the family, migration and ethnicity, urban and spatial inequalities, political sociology, health and well-being,...

Zehn Jahre sind seit der schwersten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise der Nachkriegszeit vergangen. Die Folgen der Weltwirtschaftskrise waren heftig: starke Turbulenzen an den Börsen, Einbruch des Welthandels und ein Abrutschen vieler Länder in eine Rezession. Wie hat sich all dies auf die...

The conference will focus on the following research topics and themes: - Work and education as contexts for professional learning and development - Theories and methodologies for the study of professional learning and development - Constraints and affordances of professional learning and work...

Referenten: - Prof. Jan-Egbert Sturm, ETH Zürich, Direktor KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, «Die Welt schottet sich ab: Aussichten für die Schweizer Wirtschaft» - Prof. Simon J. Evenett, Universität St. Gallen - SIAW - Schweizerisches Institut für Aussenwirtschaft und Angewandte...

List of Themes: Fertility, Family, Marriage and Work; Labour Market Discrimination; Retirement; Labour Supply and Taxation; Labour Force and Employment; Labour Demand; Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility; Education, Training and Human Capital; Econometric Methods for Policy...