This conference seeks to bring together innovative research related to these challenges, aiming to provide guidance to policy. In particular, we are interested in research studies (not yet published) that focus on one or more of the following topics: - Public and private investments in shaping...

Topics: - Market power in input and output markets: stylized facts, drivers and static and dynamic implications for misallocation, innovation, productivity and growth; - Industrial concentration, market power and investment: firm-level impact and consequences for the aggregate economy; - Firm...

This scientific conference will create a forum for appraising the profusion of perspectives, practices and theories that are central to entrepreneurial endeavours. Topics: - Critical studies, theories and methodologies that contextualise entrepreneurial endeavours - Theoretical or methodological...

Topics: - Exclusion in education and the labor market - Income distribution, poverty and financial inequality - Living conditions - Health and wellbeing - Family formation and child care - The family as social, cultural, and economic capital, and educational attainment - Social protection and...

Topics: - Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis of ICT - Analysis & Practical Uses, Global/Sectoral Spinn-off of the Internet - Transformation of Traditional Markets - Place & Development of New Markets - Role/Evolution of Intellectual Property Rights - Modelling, Development of Internet and ICT -...

This new edition of the Lisbon conference aims to bring together large numbers of researchers, policy makers for a review of the Lisbon Strategy, and a debate on the economic crisis and the prospects or a “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The conference will cover areas of applied...