The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The interpenetration of democracy and the economy has been subject to longstanding suspicions, on both sides. Economists frequently decry what they regard as ill-conceived interventions into the market from populist politicians. For their part, political scientists are often concerned about the...

Main Theme: “Globalization, Liberalization, Informatization and Human Behavior" Topics: 1. Theory of Economic Policy 2. Public Finance and Fiscal policy 3. Monetary and Financial Policy 4. Growth, Development and Population Policy 5. Industrial Organization and Industrial Structural Policy 6....

The objective of the workshop is to improve the understanding of the links between fiscal policy and long-run economic growth. The sessions of the workshop will cover the following topics: • The composition of public expenditure and economic growth • Taxation, public investment and...

The subject of the conference covers "a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, taxation and tax policies; expenditure policies; government budgeting; intergovernmental fiscal relations; and subnational, national, and international public finance.

The subject of the conference is "Macro-Financial Linkages." Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): (1) the role of finance in transmitting and amplifying real shocks, including international spillovers; (2) the financial sector as a source of (international) disturbances,...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: • Orthodoxy/Mainstream/Heterodoxy. Past and Present Developments • Is there Common Ground for Heterodox Economics? • What Can Macroeconomists Learn From Institutional, Experimental and Post Walrasian Economics? •...

Conference Sub-themes for Papers: - Conceptual and theoretical approaches to corruption in Africa - History, social structure, culture, and corruption in Africa - Leadership and corruption in Africa - Institutions, state capacity and corruption (Parliament, civil service, judiciary, executive,...

The keynote speaker will be Guido Imbens (Harvard University). The Program Committee invites submissions for about 20 presentations from academic researchers in all areas of labor market policy evaluation. Papers that include methodological, economic, and/or policy innovations are particularly...