The conference work is organized in the following six workshops: 1. Macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal policy) 2. International economic policy 3. Labor and social policy 4. Regional policy 5. Sectoral economic policy 6. Microeconomic policy or entrepreneurship policy

The conference objective is to discuss recent scientific contributions on the economics of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the economics of ICT industries. Theoretical, empirical, experimental and policy-oriented contributions are welcome. Topics of Interest ICT and the...

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Economic and social sets of human rights (like political and civil rights) have been primarily defined as individual rights. John Rawls for instance deals with the problem "how a society should determine what constitutes a basic set of rights and thus constitutes justice: each of us should go...

A global network of individuals and institutions conducting economy-wide analysis of trade, resource, and environmental policy issues has emerged. More than two thousand of these researchers now use a common data base, supplied by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). The project is...

Possible topics: - Liberalization - Electronic competition to mail and express carriers labor economics - Service quality, reliability and pricing issues - Transition from monopoly to competition - Productivity issues - Financial viability and agency problems - Privatization, and...