The workshop aims at exploring a general framework for the social sciences for investigating how competition processes interact with conflict and cooperation. This framework will provide a deeper understanding of social interactions, political reforms, the functioning of markets and political...

The 2014 conference of the GLU focuses on the causes and effects of increases in economic inequality – and what can be done to prevent or reverse them. We encourage the submission of papers mapping the extent and dynamics of inequality, analysing its causes and effects, conceptualising...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Institutions and Development - James Robinson (Harvard University) The main topic of this course is recent developments in political economy, particularly the political economy of...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Erich Gundlach (Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses standard empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth...

Program: - Cash Transfers and Social Assistance - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration - Education, Informality and Inequality - Education and Discrimination - Education and Labor Markets - Labor Market Programs and Employment - Health, Participation and Remittances - Welfare and Social Effects...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Marcel Fafchamps (University of Oxford) The first part of the course discusses contract enforcement mechanisms, with a particular focus on trust, relational contracting, and reputation...

The conference invites papers around the issues which may involve questions around the workings and structure of the International Labour Organisation, the world of work in the current context of global recession, issues surrounding social unrest as linked to rising unemployment, and the future...

Topics: - Gender, Agrarian Change and Food Security - The Political Ecology of the Food Crisis: Land Grabbing and Resource Conflicts from Below - Food Crisis and Agricultural Financialization - Food Crisis, Migration, and Agriculture - Rethinking Linkages between Labour Policies and the Informal...

The HHL Center for Corporate Governance, in collaboration with the Global Corporate Governance Forum, will bring together senior representatives from academia, development institutions, companies and investors to provide a future-oriented assessment of the governance situations in three...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Jaume Ventura (University Pompeu Fabra and CREI, Barcelona) This course examines the basicmodels of economic growth in open economies, emphasizing both their theoretical foundations and their...