Topics: quantitative measures the degree of cross-country risk sharing, and of the gains from risk sharing, based on micro and macro data; determinants of the degree of risk sharing; comparisons between interregional and international risk sharing; portfolio choices and international risk...

We invite submissions for the CEPR workshop from interested researchers on any topics within the area of Development Economics. We encourage submissions of papers on economic development from all parts of the developing world -- Africa, Asia, Latin America but also including work on the...

Topics: - Foreign banks, privatization, domestic mergers and the structure of the banking sector - Assessing banks' financial performance and risks in emerging economies - Competition, efficiency and stability of the banking sector - Banks and the rest of the financial industry in emerging...

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

Topic: any area of financial economics and related fields. Focus Sessions: - Capital Constraints and Asset Pricing (Nicolae Garleanu, University of California Berkeley and CEPR) - Investment-Based Asset Pricing (Lu Zhang, University of Michigan) - Financial Regulation (Emmanuel Fahri, Harvard...

At ESSET 2010, there will be three half-day focus sessions, one in the first week and two in the second. The focus session in the first week will be on "New Directions in the Theory of Choice", organized by Ran Spiegler with invited speakers Mark Dean, Kfir Eliaz, Ariel Rubinstein, and Aldo...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It...

This call for papers invites you to submit a paper proposal for this conference in any area of macroeconomics and related fields or to express your interest in attending as a discussant. ESSIM is an annual meeting that brings together about 60 economists from across Europe and key researchers...

The organizing committee of this conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on competition in banking. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to): • Competition and stability: trade-off or complementarity? • Industrial organization of...

The workshop organisers particularly welcome papers that address any of the following issues: - Adjustment of unemployment, employment and wages - The roles of reforms and polices in influencing labour market outcomes - Tools for analysing the labour market situation