This workshop explores life-course influences on the different aspects of retirement. Example topics are: - how working careers influence retirement age and pensions, - how childhood living conditions influence health and well-being after retirement, - how cumulative (dis)advantages shape social...

In which ways do labour market flexibilisation and subsequent life-course effects challenge pension provision and how do pension systems respond to such challenges? The one-day conference, organized by the Finnish Centre for Pensions, will bring together top researchers and professionals to...

Lord Kaldor, Cambridge economist died 30 years ago. He was born in Budapest, studied at the LSE, worked for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and advised the Labour government of Harold Wilson on taxation and economic policy. His legacy offers opportunities to analyse...

The program of the conference will cover all areas dealing with the computational aspects (broadly defined) of economics, finance, and decision making.

Matching market design is an interdisciplinary research area of Economics, Game Theory, and Computer Science. Based on the particular characteristics of the matching markets at hand, a first task is to determine the desirable properties that a satisfactory algorithm should satisfy. These...

The aim of this workshop is to bring historians, social scientists and health professionals together to discuss these emerging trends. What’s new about this recent articulation of wellbeing and happiness, if anything at all, and why now? We hope that these openly formulated questions may...

The insights of behavioural economics have begun to be applied to development economics and in particular to the behaviour of poor households in poor economies. Does poverty promote departures from the standard text book model of rational choice? Do such departures in turn promote poverty and...

The theme of ESPAnet’s 2010 Annual Conference is the social consequences of the global financial crisis and their differential impacts across Europe. The main questions for consideration include: How is the crisis affecting already existing inequalities? How are different social classes and...

The DYNARE conference will feature the work of the leading scholars in dynamic macroeconomic modelling and provide an excellent opportunity to present your own research results. Submission of the papers focusing on the following issues is encouraged: - Model uncertainty and optimal policy -...

The purpose of the workshop is to survey some recent developments in non-semimartingales like fractional Brownian motion in stochastic finance. The use of non-semimartingales is partially motivated by pricing models with transaction costs, or pricing non-tradeable assets, like electricity. The...