Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

The governance of almost all complex social or natural resource systems is polycentric: it involves distributed, nested and partially overlapping patterns of competitive and cooperative relationships among relatively autonomous private and public actors, operating at different levels, within a...

The rise of new growth poles and the emergence of new global institutional dynamics are challenging the old divide between the developed and developing world. At the same time as a majority of the world population have experienced improved living standards, there seems to be rising popular...

Contributions from any academic discipline or theoretical approach that address the challenges and dynamics of the economic, political, legal and social institutions of our time are welcome. Submissions on other aspects of institutional research are also welcome, with preference to those that...

The conference especially welcomes contributions from any academic discipline that address the challenges and dynamics of the economic, political, legal and social institutions of our time. In addition to the conference theme submissions on any aspect of institutional research are welcome.

This conference provides a forum of discussion between advanced PhD/postdoctoral students in Macroeconomics and established researchers in their field. The conference contains parallel, invited and plenary sessions. Theoretical and empirical papers in macroeconomics are welcome.

Topic: all areas of macroeconomics and finance in emerging markets

Conference Programme: - Fiscal policy and the great recession in the euro area - Fiscal policy, default risk and euro area sovereign bond spread - Classical time-varying FAVAR models: estimation, forecasting and structural analysis - When is quantitative easing effective? - Exit strategies -...

Relevant topics include issues such as corporate governance and the macro economy, financial constraints and the macro economy, corporate governance and firms, financial constraints and firm behaviour, normative issues about corporate governance and finance.

The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation of recent theoretical and empirical contributions regarding the role of real-time and survey data in forecasting macroeconomic and financial variables. The recent period of heightened economic and financial uncertainty has demonstrated the...