Every week more than $1bn still flows into China as foreign direct investment. It is still very much a work in progress – investment strategies differ from sector to sector, and from company to company. The optimists look at China as a golden opportunity, moving from just being a low cost...

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership process, also referred to as the ‘Barcelona Process’, encompasses politics, security, cultural dialogue, human rights promotion and, as its centrepiece, a planned free-trade area covering all states of the European Union and the non-member states of the...

Session I: Technology and Immigration - "The Impact of Immigration on New Technology Adoption in U.S. Manufacturing" - "Are New Work Practices and New Technologies Biased against Immigrant Workers?" - "Migration and Technological Change in Rural Households: Complements or Substitutes?" Session...

The conference is to be an academic forum for current research in market microstructure. The conference goes over two days. Each day will concentrate on papers analyzing one of the two markets: Equity and Currency. Possible topics are: - market microstructure and asset pricing - trading and...

THEMES: Specific themes covered by the conference encompass interdisciplinary social science approaches to analyses and problem solving in the Middle East and Central Asia and may fall within, but not limited to, the following: # Authoritarianism and Democracy # Impacts of Globalization #...

The Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University will hold a workshop to introduce researchers to the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF). Twenty waves of GSOEP data are available to researchers interested in using this rich...

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The topic of this year's CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe' and will cover the following sub-areas: (1) the Flexibility of European Labor Markets and Labor Mobility within the EU, (2) the Flexibility of Product Markets, (3) Financial...

This conference will be the sixth programme meeting of the Public Policy programme. Its goal is to provide a forum for high quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. Papers are invited in any...

Due to its near-coastal location, the trade and business in the city of Bremen are characterized by strong maritime influences. The field of logistics is well developed and represents a core business of the center of Northwest Germany. In the last decades political, social and economic changes...