Topics: - The impact of the financial crisis on arts organizations. - Managing the heritage chain from archaeological discovery to museum access. - National variations and commonalities in managing arts and cultural organizations. - Western-centrism and “the rest of the world”: open issues...

The chosen theme for the 3rd International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity is: “The great transition: degrowth as a passage of civilization”

The demographic development of many industrialized countries has motivated a tightening in public pension benefits and eligibility rules; confronted with less generous social security systems, senior citizens are asked to take active and complex decisions in order to guarantee their living...

Topics: - Sustainable Development: historical and theoretical overview - Aggregate measures of sustainable performance - Beyond GDP: Methodological and Measurement Issues - Sustainable Development: a quantitative approach for future projections - Measuring sustainability & benchmarking...

In most OECD countries the era of long-term care (LTC) has arrived. More than two out of five people aged 65 or older report having some type of functional limitation (sensory, physical, mental, self-care disability, or difficulty leaving home). A few years from now, the ageing trend will...

The I.S.E.O international Summer School aims at bringing together a large number of graduate students coming from the most important international universities to improve their knowledge in economics. Classes will be held by Nobel Laureates for Economic Sciences and well-known economists. The...

Environment, energy, health, food safety and food security are among the most important nowadays issues linked with the challenge of a sustainable development of the so called bio-economy. Agriculture is a core sector of the bio-economy but the latter includes other important industries...

IT&FA invites proposals on all aspects of international trade and finance, including trade policy, exchange rates, investments and capital flows, migration, communications and transportation, governance and law, management and marketing. Industry-specific studies are welcome, as are proposals...

The aim of the Conference is to present and discuss recent research on cultural traits, beliefs and social norms and how they affect the functioning of institutions and legal systems. Topics: • Economics and Econometrics of Interactions • Cultural diversity and discrimination • Political...

The School is designed to be of particular benefit to PhD students as well as researchers in the Social Sciences, Economics and Statistics, willing to learn how to use micro data to inform policy making. The School will present 1) the fundamental principles of impact evaluation with a specific...