In today’s highly-competitive business climate, it is vital that economists and analysts possess a firm grasp of the economic data that factor into business decisions, drive economic modeling, and influence policy debates. Understanding how the data are constructed is a prerequisite for...

The main aim of the program is to bring outstanding PhD students to Washington, DC in order to meet with leading labor economists during seminars as well as personal meetings at local universities and public institutions such as the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank.The program...

In this panel, we will discuss: - to what extent entrepreneurs are able to substantially influence economic development and wealth creation in an economy; - to what extent the regulatory environment in developed and developing economies explains the differences in outcomes, or whether other...

The program is part of IZA’s network activities and its objective is to bring outstanding PhD students to Washington, DC. The program encourages interaction between talented PhD students and labor economists located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. On each of the five days of the...

The Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of economics. Since 1986, it has been the essential training ground for economists who are looking beyond the mainstream. The program offers courses, seminars, and reading groups on the whole range of the...

The main objective is to expose young scholars to the world's leading labor economists through a week of presentations and to give them the opportunity to create networks and commence collaborating on research projects with IZA Research Fellows in the DC area.

The Festival Events: - July 12 - 16, 2010: International Conference on Game Theory - One out of July 12-16, 2010: Dedicated in Honor of Shmuel Zamir for his Seventieth Birthday - July 18 - 23, 2010: Workshops

The recent financial crisis has thrust corporate governance practices into the public debate along several dimensions. Executive compensation practices at our largest financial services companies, in particular, feature prominently today in financial policymaking. While this topic has been a...

The HCCA Compliance Institute has evolved into the MUST-attend annual conference for healthcare compliance professionals. Once again, the HCCA Compliance Institute 2008 Planning Committee has met the challenge of gathering expert speakers to provide you with a comprehensive agenda covering a...

There will be three sessions on gender-related topics: p.e. aspects of women's acitvities in the economics profession, on the economics of spousal relationships and on issues of child care and the will also be three sessions on non-gender-related topics: areas of information technology and...