The aim of this seminar is to give an advanced treatment of research on or relevant for the analysis of consumer behaviour. The seminar is intended to provide inspiration to doctoral students dealing in their own work with topics related to consumer behaviour, but it is likewise intended to give...

This year’s workshop will have a focus on the relationship between violent conflict and socio-economic development. We invite submissions that address key issues in conflict and economic development analysis. We also welcome submissions from other disciplines on the usual HiCN topics around...

The conference, as a major knowledge consolidation initiative, is structured around three key themes and under each of these a number of session topics are listed. We would like to invite proposals (panels, roundtables, sessions, presentations, etc.) that address these topics: - Key Theme 1:...

The focus of the conference will be on the assessment of green growth strategies. The goal is to clarify the challenges of smart and sustainable growth as well as to provide solutions. There will be an introduction to the green growth debate, given by Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK & MCC), a summary of...

The purpose of the conference is to bring together the members of the CESifo Research Network to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any...

F.O. Licht’s World Ethanol & Biofuels is the No. 1 networking forum for the biofuels industry, attracting a cross-section of the supply chain from all over the world.

The subject of this conference is "Transition to a Sustainable Energy Era: Opportunities & Challenges" Topics: - Conventional and Unconventional Gas and Oil Supplies - Changing Geography of Energy Demand - Energy Capital Investment & Allocation - Markets and Drivers of Renewable Energy - Climate...

This conference aims to bring together researchers and policymakers to discuss the effects of the financial crisis on household finances and behaviour. In recent years, household income and wealth have been severely affected by simultaneous adverse conditions in the labour, housing and stock...

Christopher Wildeman will show how descriptive methods - especially life tables - and several types of tests for individual-level effects can help us understand consequences of social inequality. These descriptive methods are simple yet underutilized. To illustrate this method, he constructs a...

Family background is an important determinant of child well-being and human capital formation. Family and educational policies play a role both in complementing and substituting for the human capital investments of families and, arguably, affect social gradients in both health and education....