The Congress general theme is ‘Financial System and the International Economy Post-Crisis’. The Congress will have two special sessions: ‘Strategies for economic growth after the crisis – global and Brazilian economy’ and ‘Spread of Keynesianism in Brazil: in honour of Prof Fernando...

Decentralization impacts the political and economic environment in many ways. One of its possible consequences is a reduction in the information asymmetries between citizens and politicians. The aim of this workshop is to analyze the extent to which decentralization affects the accountability of...

Topics: - Political and economic determinants of reforms - Information, the media and economic policies - Politics and the business cycle - Economic crises and political outcomes

General Theme of the Conference: The Social Economy, prop of a new model of sustainable economic development. Objective of the conference: To examine the role that the social economy can play in a new model of economic development which is sustainable for both the North and the South. Main...

Theme: International integration and economic growth, 1850 to the present FRESH meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The meetings build on the concept that scholars present their ongoing research at an early stage, i.e. normally before it becomes...

This event aims to bring together renowned international and local scholars in the field of history of economics to discuss important aspects of the development of economics after World War II. The speakers are E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University), Mary Morgan (LSE and University of Amsterdam),...

The RDC programme is intended for PhD students in economic and social history regardless of the subject of their dissertation. Students need to be at the very least in the end of their first year of study at the time of the course, and at the most in the course of their second year. For a...

Program: Plenary Sessions A-1: GDP and Economic Macro-magnitudes in Ancien Régime Spain A-2: Companies and Industrial Districts in the World Market Sessions B B-1: Economic Growth in Postcolonial Latin America B-2: "Fiscal State" and Economic Depression in Habsburg Spain B-3: From Charity to...

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on sovereign risk. The topics of the conference are the following: • Theoretical models. Why do countries repay their debts? What are the effects of sovereign risk? • Empirical analysis. What are the costs of default? When...