Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Conference Tracks: - Economic growth and environment mitigation - Economic growth and poverty - Transforming economies for sustainable growth - Global partnerships and sustainable development

This conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners and policymakers sharing interests in financial management, financial markets, corporate governance, etc. It also provides a forum for presenting new research results as well as discussing current and challenging issues in financial...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling and aims at bringing together academic researchers and practitioners. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and business cycles, international...

The aim of the conference is to present the problem of financialization and initiate discussion on the subject, to develop the Polish definition of financialisation, define strategic research directions and to promote international studies on the subject.

Topics: - Corporate governance in emerging economies versus developed economies - The role of institutions and national business systems in corporate governance - Convergence towards best practices versus path-dependence - Complementarities and substitution among governance mechanisms at...

The seminar introduces the participants to the methods, techniques and theories commonly used in their research area. It also offers possibilities for young researchers to get in contact with their peers, to explore new avenues of thinking, to learn collectively and to exchange ideas in a very...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

The workshop will be a one-day event featuring three sessions of analytical presentations, three scene-setting interventions and a final policy-oriented panel discussion. - The first session will set the framework of corporate debt. - The second session will focus on the link between...

The conference focuses on the current European crisis. The conference is structured in four parts: Part 1: The origin of the European crisis Part 2: The handling of the crisis Part 3: How to avoid future sovereign debt crises in the Euro area? Part 4: How to solve the current crises in the Euro...