The questions we want to address at the workshop are: -What are the key factors for understanding total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the disaggregate level (e.g. information and communication technology (ICT) capital/human capital/organizational structure/competition). - What are the...

The main aim of the workshop is to gather new researchers in a friendly and unimposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive criticism from their peers and leading economic historians. Another aim of the workshop is to demonstrate th ebreadth of Economic...

Professor David F. Hendry will give three lectures on Econometric model selection: Automatic methods in theory and practice. The lectures will cover the following topics: - Principles of model selection: Why automatic methods can outperform experts. - Performance of selection algorithms: High...

The background to the workshop is the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm that has taken place during the last 35 years. In spite of all the progress in the field the traces in microeconomic and industrial organization textbooks are scant.

Topics: - National and European Legal Regimes’ Evolution - Litigation and Enforcement - The Quality and Value of Patents - University Patents in Europe - Software , Biotech Patents in Europe - Industrial Dynamics, Clusters and IPR - The governance of the Patent System in Europe - Competition...

This half-day seminar aims to shed light on a number of issues connected with privatization in general and the Swedish situation in particular. First, what is the role of state-owned companies in today’s economy? What sectors are more suitable for state ownership and has this changed over...

The theme of the 8th CINet conference is "Continuous Innovation – Opportunities and Challenges”. Continuous innovation is the ongoing process of initiating, developing, operating and improving new and existing configurations of products, market approaches, processes, technologies and...

This conference seeks to gather academics and policymakers to discuss the evolution of financial markets from a systemic risk perspective. The general objective of the conference is to explore how the nature of systemic risk has changed as a result of institutional change, e.g., financial...

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We especially welcome papers dealing with the following areas: - Industrial dynamics and firm demography - Portfolio, serial and novice entrepreneurship - Institutions and entrepreneurship - Productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship policy