Starting in 2007, the first new EU member states (NMS) will also join the Euro Area. Although the adoption of the Euro by the NMS completes the recent eastern Enlargement of the EU, there are still many open questions concerning the accession to the Euro Area. Several policy issues (economic...

Topics: - Economic-social-legal conditions and symptoms of labour market flexibility - Flexibility of national labour markets in countries - EU members (role of state in forming flexibility of labour market and European social model (guidelines, strategies, European founds) - Employers and...

Programme: - Sticky Information, Inflation Persistence and Media Effects: Evidence for European Countries - Fundamental Determinants of House Price Developments in Industrial Countries - The Euro and Inflation Uncertainty in the European Monetary Union - Money Demand and Monetary Overhang in the...

Topics Any research related to the microstructure of the foreign exchange and/or equity markets.

The workshop will bring together national and European policy-makers, experts from academia, national authorities, the European Commission and other international organisations to discuss the state-of-play, the channels and the consequences of corporate tax competition and coordination in the...

The workshop takes a broad view of the topic and invites theoretical as well as empirical research to be presented.

The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss papers with various approaches and methodologies: theoretical contributions, empirical research using survey evidence, laboratory experiments, and field experiments.

Teilnehmer sollen sich in diesem Seminar mit dem Thema "Zukunft der Arbeit" auseinandersetzen und nach der Beschreibung des Ist-Zustands nach möglichen Wegen der Gestaltung der zukünftigen Arbeit suchen. Dabei sollen sie das Thema "Globalisierung" besonders ausleuchten und Impulse und...

Conference Program: SESSION 1 : INTRA-HOUSEHOLD COLLECTIVE OR JOINT DECISION MAKING SESSION 2 : AGE AND PRODUCTIVITY SESSION 3 : THE BEHAVIOURAL EFFECTS OF INCENTIVES TO EARLY RETIREMENT SESSION 4 : HETEROGENEITY OF PREFERENCES SESSION 5 : LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS AND ACCESS TO CREDIT SESSION 6 :...

The Workshop focuses on economic analysis broadly dealing with the impact of demographic change on labour markets or, indeed, vice versa. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions from both a micro- and macro-economic perspective. Topics of interest include: - Supply- and demand-side...