Topics: • Social preferences • Voting behaviour • Social learning and information aggregation • Heterogeneity across individuals and institutions • Rent-seeking • Public goods • Taxation • Monetary and fiscal policies • International political economy

The Conference consists of three thematic sessions and one session including free contributions. The thematic sessions will be introduced by invited lectures, followed by the presentation of selected papers. - 1st thematic session: A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economics and development. This year it will focus on the main analytical and empirical approaches to the study of the impact of international...

China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS) have an important impact on the global economy through growth and trade effects, and their roles in financial markets. This conference focuses on the inter-linkages between CIBS and the global economy, including the impact of these economies on their...

The Theme: The relationship between global(ization) processes and welfare state development has generated much debate in recent years. However, those concerned with the impact of globalization upon social policy in developing countries and those dealing with industrialized countries to a large...

The theme for the conference is: "At the Crossroads of East and West: New Opportunities for Entrepreneurship and Small Business". Historically, Finland has been part of both Sweden and Russia and in its position between east and west, which are becoming increasingly united with growing...

The Annual Mediterranean Meeting is organised around a core of up to 16 Workshops, each run by 2 Directors and with 10–12 participants.

Time series forecasting is a challenge in many fields. In finance, experts forecast stock exchange courses or stock market indices; data processing specialists forecast the flow of information on their networks; producers of electricity forecast the load of the following day. ESTSP'07 is a...