The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...

In Africa, the major cities have grown with unprecedented speed over the past few decades creating genuine metropolises. Cities like Nairobi, Johannesburg and Lagos reflect the makeup of the country at large, and indeed are often taken to stand as a symbol for the nation united. In a rhetorical...

The goal of the conference is to promote and stimulate the exchange of ideas in the field of economic modeling techniques applied to regional and urban issues.

Topics: - New European Centres and Peripheries: the Dynamics of Polycentricity in EU - The Change of Mentalities against the Background of European Integration Processes - Development of National Languages in the New EU: Facts and Prospects - National Literatures of EU: Globalisation and...

Topics: Exchange on research development of institutionalisation of rural sociology.

On March 10-11, 2006 CESifo will organise a conference in Munich for all members of the CESifo Research Network with an interest in the area of Applied Microeconomics. The purpose of the conference is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to...

PANEL A: EFFECTS OF FRAMING ON BEHAVIOR (Chair: A. Ziegelmeyer) PANEL B: HETEROGENEOUS PREFERENCES AND GROUP DECISIONS (Chair: Sven Fisher) PANEL C: ENDOGENEOUS PROCESSES (Chair: Cristoph Vanberg & Torsten Weiland)