We encourage research on the importance of behavioural biases and expectations formation and behavioural bi-ases for business cycle fluctuations and invite papers on the implications of these biases and of alternative expec-tations formation mechanisms for modelling business cycle fluctuations...

The congress organisation welcomes papers on a range of issues and developments such as: Track 1: Social Capital as a Production Factor Track 2: Regions, Communities and Social Capital Track 3: Social Capital in Historical Perspective; Change and Continuity Track 4: Social Capital and Work...

As part of its activities, the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Europe, organizes an annual symposium. A major part of the conference will be devoted to: "Private equity, real estate, commodities and other alternatives". Authors, both academics and from the financial...

List of Themes and JEL-Codes:Family and work (D13, J12, J13, J16); Discrimination (J7, J16, J42); Retirement and early exit (J14, J26); Labour market policy (E64, J18, J23,J38, J58, J65, J68); Labour supply (H2, J21, J22); Labour demand and employment (J21, J23); Occupational choice and...

The aim of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields in Labour Economics.

Topics: 1. Finance and growth in developed countries 2. How do financial markets finance innovation? 3. Market failures? The role of private and public institutions in financing innovations. 4. The European Financial Market

The aim of this annual workshop is to provide a forum for central bank economists to present and discuss ongoing research on macroeconomic models. The special topic this year will be "Financial frictions in macroeconomic models". As in previous years, the agenda will also include discussions of...

Agriculture is more and more treated as a normal economic activity. Policy makers would therefore like to compare agricultural statistics with statistics from other economic sectors. There is also a growing interest in comparing FADN data in an international context (for example in EU policy...

China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS) have an important impact on the global economy through growth and trade effects, and their roles in financial markets. This conference focuses on the inter-linkages between CIBS and the global economy, including the impact of these economies on their...

In a modern central bank, the responsibility for monetary policy typically lies within a committee and not, as assumed in the theoretical literature, with a single policymaker. What are the arguments in favour of delegating monetary policy decisions to a committee? Why do the committees differ?...