The IAEE International Conference is a four-day conference on energy business, markets and policy. Over 500 international particpants are expected to attend from all over the world. Conference participants include policy makers, consultants, representatives from energy businesses and academia.

Topics: Oil and Gas investments in a low price scenario; Regional Impact of the Unconventional Oil and Gas Revolution; Renewable energy diffusion: Policies and implications; The geopolitics of oil and natural gas; The utilities of the future; Energy supply security; Energy and development:...

Institutions for collective action are institutional arrangements that are formed bottom-up by groups of people in order to overcome certain common problems over an extended period of time by setting certain rules regarding access to the group (membership), use of the resources and services the...

Netspar researchers Marloes Lammers (VU University Amsterdam), Giacomo Pasini (Universita' Ca'Foscari) and Peter van Santen (University of Groningen) will present research papers on labour market behaviour of the elderly, savings for retirement, and bequest motives. Guest speaker Michael...

The theme of the 2009 congress will be global economic history. The congress is expected to contribute to the following goals: - enhance the dialogue with social sciences and economics; - develop a programme of global economic history; - integrate business history ; - build better institutions...

Labour market policies are imperative to the further preservation and development of our welfare states. However it is clear that current labour market policies are not capable of dealing adequately with the challenges resulting from two major trends: the internationalisation of the economy and...