The purpose of the 2022 Winter School is to present methods for studying environmental and resource economics in a natural resource wealth and economic growth framework, along with current results regarding the history of natural resources and economic development, the role of political...

Jan-Egbert Sturm von der Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF der ETH Zürich und Marius Brülhart der University Lausanne sind die diesjährigen Redner.

As a group of economists and political scientists, we investigate forms, causes, and consequences of media bias, especially in news markets. Main questions of interest are: - How can media bias be defined and measured? - In which situations is bias driven by the supply side of the news market?...

This workshop wants to bring together junior and senior researchers who analyze the Chinese labor market in a rigorous fashion. While we invite contributions covering any aspect of labor market adjustment in China, one focus of the workshop will be the experience of young Chinese workers, where...

Guiding Questions: - How did trade policy affect the expansion of services trade and labor market outcomes over the last decades? - Which services sectors are most important for employment generation and how can services trade reform contribute to expanding them? - What are the employment links...

This workshop targets applied and theoretical research on household finance and economic stability. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the implications of household leverage for consumption, employment, house prices both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

"[The conference] will foster interdisciplinary discussions around medicine, literature and the digital humanities. The goal is to bring together IT experts, physicians and literary scholars in order to work on the concrete elaboration of a digital database in the field of medicine and...

This year, the central focus of the colloquium will be on strategic innovation for sustainability. The emphasis of the sessions will be on 1) whether, why and how sustainability can be a key driver for innovation, 2) identification of synergies between sustainability and innovation success, and...

The organizers welcome submissions on the general theme of Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes. Relevant aspects of globalization include trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment and the operation of multinational enterprises, current account imbalances, real exchange rate...