The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

From the 1960s onwards, international economics and international business have been developing as separate fields. More recently, four trends that may lead to a possible convergence of international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have become evident. First, the modern IE...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the UCLA conference. Papers focusing on general equilibrium growth and models of large trading economies are welcome. The roles of global and regional trade patterns, foreign direct investment,...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the Manila conference. Papers focusing on the patterns and implications of international trade and foreign direct investment in a growing world economy, as well as the conditions under which nations...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the Sydney conference. Papers focusing on the determinants of the patterns of international trade, investment and migration in a growing world economy and on the conditions under which nations...