Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

The goal of the conference is to bring together junior researchers active in finance and create an opportunity for informal discussions and other academic-related activities. The organizers are: Adrien Matray (Princeton), Andrea Polo (LUISS, EIEF), and Luana Zaccaria (EIEF).

Contributions on the following fields are welcome: - Financial Reforms, Regulation and Supervision - Financial Stability - Theory and Empirics of Financial Crises - International Finance - Securities markets - Monetary Policy and Central Banking - Public Debt Management - Financial Education -...

List of Themes: - Family, Marriage and work - Labour Market Discrimination - Retirement - Program and Policy evaluation - Labour supply - Labour demand - Occupational choice and Intergenerational Mobility - Education, Training and Human Capital - Health - Job and Life Satisfaction - Wage...

Topics: - Patterns of asset allocation and debt behavior over the life cycle - Financing retirement and the demographic transition - Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions - Behavioral approaches to household finances - Financial literacy and financial education...

The aim of the meeting is to present and discuss recent developments in theoretical and empirical analysis of nonlinearity in economics and finance. Confirmed invited speakers are Sir David F. Hendry (Oxford University) and Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde).

The Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP), announces a call for abstracts for the Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione 2013 (Population Days 2013). Each contribution to the conference should be submitted in one of the following strands: - Fertility - Migrations - Health and...