The ifo Institute, Dresden Branch, announces the 14th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics. The workshop aims at facilitating the networking of young scientists and at promoting the exchange of their latest research. Relevant topics include regional structural change, development...

Topics: Without limiting the scope of topics, areas of particular interest are: - regulation, firms, and financial intermediation - law, politics, and finance - monetary policy, inflation, and financial resilience - macroprudential policy and real estate - financial networks and systemic risk -...

The world is facing a variety of severe challenges that are in tension with one another. On the one hand, there is a perceived necessity for an investment offensive bring about decarbonisation. As the paradigm of the night-watchman state is (slowly) disappearing, governments around the globe are...