Informationen spielen in den modernen Gesellschaften eine zentrale Rolle. Die neuen Technologien und das Internet haben überdies die Möglichkeiten der Produktion, Verbreitung und Nutzung von Informationen ungeheuer erweitert. Gerade auch wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken sehen sich deshalb einem...

Successful policies for development and poverty alleviation require the involvement of civil society in policy development and implementation. Trade Unions play an important role in organizing and representing worker's interest. They are a crucial partner in promoting the ILO Decent Work agenda...

Die Tagung soll einen Impuls für die horizontale und vertikale Zusammenarbeit in den Agglomerationen geben. Den Teilnehmenden werden der Bericht «Horizontale und vertikale Zusammenarbeit in den Agglomerationen» sowie die dazu gehörenden Empfehlungen der Tripartiten Agglomerationskonferenz...

We believe that it is time to organise a broader conference on the history of macroeconomics that will draw together economists and historians of economics who are working on the subject. Our hope is that this will encourage more systematic inquiries into the subject and open up new ways of...

Over the past five years, substantial experience with money market operations by the Eurosystem has been gained. Moreover, from March 2004, further important changes to the Eurosystem's framework for monetary policy implementation have come into effect. In light of these changes, and given the...

Some MBOPs have been remarkably successful, while others have failed. What structures and activities characterize MBOPs? What is meant by success? What factors account for success? In particular, what are the internal (governance structure and leadership) and external (policy environment)...

The conference’s main purpose is to foster an exchange of ideas among economists on opposite sides of the Pacific as well as around the world.

Derivatives ideally reflect the tension and co-operation between academia (gown) and actors in financial markets (town). There are few fields were the exchange between the two has been as close and as prolific. In order to grasp the full advantages and possibilities offered by derivatives,...