Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...

At the conference, leading companies like Continental Automotive Systems and ZF Friedrichshafen AG provide insight in their approaches for the generation of variety by means of software instead of mechanics and for lean order fulfilment based on CtO. The situation of automotive industries can be...

The conference will have three major themes around which the panels will be organized: 1. Comparing Regional Integration: Divergence or Convergence? 2. Exporting Regional Integration: The European Union as Promoter of Regional Integration 3. Importing Regional Integration: Adoption, Translation,...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Carl E. Walsh, University of California) focuses on the theoretical foundations of monetary economics and their policy implications, with some attention paid to the models’...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss new developments in the field of empirical and applied macroeconomic modelling. We invite applied and theoretical papers dealing with time series and panel econometrics, business cycles, economic forecasting or international macroeconomics. Papers that...

Papers may be on any topic in or related to Law and Economics with particular emphasis on: • European and International Law and Economics • Property, including Intellectual Property • Torts and Crimes • Contracts and Contractual Regulation • Corporate Law & Economics & Corporate...

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

For the 3rd Halle Forum in 2010 the organis-ers are planning to bring together scholars exploring diverse modes and effects of cooperative be-haviour of firms, municipalities and other collective actors in metropolitan and other urban regions. Colleagues from Central and Eastern European...

The conference will bring together researchers from central banks, international institutions and academia to discuss the role of monetary and fiscal policy in times of financial crises. The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical...

The conference covers a wide range of research topics in accounting and taxation. In particular, it provides a forum for young researchers who are explicitly encouraged to submit. Methodologically, no restrictions apply. Analytical, empirical and experimental contributions are equally welcome.