Themes: Green Growth, Environment and Sustainable Development; Millennium Development Goals and Environment; Human Welfare Impacts of the Environmental Changes; Economic Development and Environmental Degradation; Pollution, Climate Change and Impacts; Green Accounting, Environmental Valuation...

For the workshop, we invite PhD-students in sociology and political science to submit abstracts related to the topic of “Ageing Societies and the Welfare State”. The contributions may be qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual. Country-comparative studies are especially welcome.

Main Theme: “Globalization, Liberalization, Informatization and Human Behavior" Topics: 1. Theory of Economic Policy 2. Public Finance and Fiscal policy 3. Monetary and Financial Policy 4. Growth, Development and Population Policy 5. Industrial Organization and Industrial Structural Policy 6....

Topics: - What are good approaches to measure the shortfall risk for individuals and pension plans? - What are appropriate models to measure long-run expected returns, volatilities, and correlations for retirement assets? - How good are individuals at saving for retirement and at managing their...

Both theoretical and applied contributions to environmental and natural resources economics and to economic growth literature are welcome, especially if their focus is on one of the following subfields: - Energy, - Preferences, - Normative aspects of sustainable development, - Health and...

The conference will favour theoretical contributions, but also welcomes original applied studies showing explicit links with the analysis of sustainable development. All geographical areas are eligible: North and south, urban and rural, coastal and maritime, are all considered.

Topics of interest include applications of game theory to: - Electricity and gas (market design, investment decisions, imperfect competition models, regulation, etc.) - Oil industry (international markets, competition in retail markets, etc.) - Resources (fisheries, renewable and non renewable...

This Forum provides the key platform for information and exchange on the most important regional social security trends and priority issues in Africa. Topics : Administration & management, About social security, Managing reforms, Extending coverage, Disability, Health, Employment policies,...

Der bisherige internationale Diskurs zu Fragen von Umwelt und Entwicklung ist von dieser Fragmentierung gekennzeichnet.Auffällig ist, dass ursprünglich Wachstum als entwicklungspolitisches Ziel in Frage gestellt wurde. Mit der Zeit wurden unterschiedliche Formen von Wachstum differenziert:...

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...