We welcome diverse approaches, including, but not restricted to, theoretical, experimental, and neuroscientific. Besides offering networking opportunities, the workshop aims to further existing dialogues on how neuroscientific and gerontological insights can be incorporated into models of...

The main objective of the Symposium is to further research in the areas of finance, banking, and insurance, and to strengthen the cooperation between academia and practice. Therefore, we encourage the submission of academic papers from all areas including: - Asset Pricing and Asset Management -...

The conference will focus on the following themes: - Legal and institutional aspects of transboundary water cooperation - Balancing different interests and uses in transboundary basins, and the application of integrated water resources management - Protection of ecosystem and water quality,...

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

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 empirical, applied and theo-retical papers dealing with time series and panel econometrics,...

The Munich Behavioral Insurance Workshop invites researchers to submit papers that offer new experimental, econometric or theoretical insights into human behavior in the insurance context. Submissions should have an insurance and/or decision under risk and uncertainty background and establish a...

On the 12 and 13 December 2011, Governments and traders from all over the world, will come together to review the progress made on the Trade Facilitation agenda and to explore the way ahead. They will develop a joint vision and framework to guide the future of Single Windows and their support to...

The workshop is aimed at promoting interdisciplinary research on political reforms.

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marc J. Melitz (Department of Economics Harvard University) Recent empirical evidence has shown that firms/plants producing similar goods react very differently to international forces. Some...

The conference aims at stimulating exchange on the methods to model and forecast aggregates such as GDP growth or labour demand for a horizon of 10 to 30 years. Contributions to general forecasting methods are as welcome as disaggregate forecasts by sectors or regions, international comparison,...