Themes: - Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution; - Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments; - Productivity Impacts of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from New Zealand; - New-Keynesian Trade:...

Topics: - Role of government regulation, trade and investment agreements for sustainability; - Impact of GVC participation on sustainability, such as distributional aspects, environmental performance, or labour conditions; - Sustainability in non GVC firms or upstream suppliers (e.g., informal...

In light of the recent tit-for-tat trade dispute between China and the US, interest in quantifying the effects of the so-called phase one agreement has risen. To this end, the paper quantifies the impact of the asymmetric managed trade agreement using such a multi-country open-economy dynamic...

Cato’s 39th Annual Monetary Conference—Populism and the Future of the Fed—will bring together leading scholars and policymakers to explore the risks that populism poses to the conduct of monetary policy. As the bright line between monetary and fiscal policy fades, and the threat of fiscal...

Conference topics: This year’s Historical Materialism online conference seeks proposals for papers and panels on the following area: - the impact of the pandemic on the right to protest; - the rise of social movements against the state and state institutions; - the relation between the...

Topics: - Monetary and financial policy to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and support the recovery; - Fiscal policies to support growth, reduce inequality, and address the public debt overhang; - Structural policies to restore confidence and mitigate the negative impact on employment and income...

Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of novel large and unstructured data sources, or the application of techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These approaches have now found their way into...

This year the conference will focus on Service Trade. Submissions of papers examining the patterns, determinants, and effects of service trade along the economic and institutional dimensions from researchers who are associated with a European or Latin American/Caribbean based academic or...

Western sanctions exposed Russia’s key vulnerabilities - dependence on Western capital and advanced technology, with knock-on effects in other sectors. In response, Russia launched a policy of import substitution and attempted to diversify to non-Western countries to mitigate the impact of...

We welcome submissions that support the enhanced use of such analysis to promote evidence-based decision making. We welcome submissions on multiple methods used to assist public sector decision making, including benefit cost analysis, cost analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, risk-benefit...