The conference will focus on how key differences in the fundamentals between the U.S. and the EU – in particular, the degree of coordination among the union member states and the aging of the population – contribute a great deal to our understanding of observed policy differences between...

Economic Development: Asset markets in developing countries - Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

The conference panels cover a wide range of migration and integration issues, including: Education; Labour market; Policy analysis; Language (e.g. acquisition, retention); Political participation and representation; Cultural integration; Social integration.

In September 2013, the United Nations began to discuss the post MDG 2015 agenda. Global Sustainable Development Goals seems to be the new slogan. The emphasis in the field of employment is placed on social protection, skill training, better business climate (plus a move to large-scale...

The annual conference brings together international scholars and researchers of development economics and neighboring fields. Plenary sessions with the keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with contributed papers and posters will reflect the current state of research in development economics...

Researchers on development issues are invited to present papers for the EADI General Conference under the Working Group sessions. EADI Working Groups: - Aid Policy and Performance - Conflicts, Security and Development - Development Aid of the Non-DAC Donors - Development Evaluation - Disasters...

This conference aims to identify the linkages between social stratification and mobility with social policy and welfare states. It looks for questions and answers that lie at the intersection of stratification and policy. For example: Does social policy enable or inhibit social mobility? Do...

The workshop aims at exploring a general framework for the social sciences for investigating how competition processes interact with conflict and cooperation. This framework will provide a deeper understanding of social interactions, political reforms, the functioning of markets and political...