The workshop will focus on three key areas: 1. Development Economics. We encourage submission of empirical papers on developing strategies to promote economic development, economic growth and structural change in low income countries, for example, through health, education and workplace...

Thematisch dreht sich dieses mal alles um die Fragen um die Sharing Economy: Ist sie (immer) Plattformkapitalismus oder alternative Ökonomie? Wie gestaltet sich Sharing im urbanen Raum? Und kann dieser Raum helfen Sharing wirklich nachhaltig(er) zu gestalten? Auf der Herbstakademie wechseln...

The meeting will be the fifth event in the annual conferences series "New Developments in Business Cycle Analysis" bringing together economists from academia and central banks focused on understanding the impact of cross-sectional heterogeneity on the macroeconomic environment, and its...

Ziel der Tagung ist es, den Fairen Handel kritisch in den Blick zu nehmen und dabei der deutschsprachigen Forschung zu diesem Themenfeld ein Forum des interdisziplinären Austausches und der akademischen Vernetzung zu bieten.

Topics: - Successes and failures of development cooperation - New donors and South-South cooperation - The SDGs and the future of development studies - Power, politics, and the political economy of development cooperation - Accountability in development policy - Beyond aid: global structural...

With the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the world community has set the agenda for tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, including ending poverty and ensuring prosperity for the growing world population while respecting planetary boundaries. The...

The conference highlights the issues of opportunities of cooperation between universities and businesses, entrepreneurship and SMEs in Africa, market entry and development in Africa, international business between Germany and Africa, development of enterprises and the training and recruitment of...

The title “Dynamics in an Unequal World” is based on the premise that the world is far from being flat. Worldwide, we see uneven developments in which regions and countries rise, while other fall. The growth of specialized economic clusters like Silicon Valley or the growing numbers of...

Topics: - The relationship between economic development and displacement; - The effect of government legitimacy on migration decisions; - Environmental factors in migration/displacement; - The role of security and conflict in migration and displacement processes; - Empirical methodologies for...

We invite scholars from economics and cognate disciplines to submit extended abstracts or full papers. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Firm survival and productivity across countries • Productivity dispersion, regional competitiveness and trade • Determinants of firm...