Competition is a key component of well-functioning markets and fosters productivity, innovation, technological progress and growth. Globalisation and technology have been powerful forces transforming competition in product markets all over the world. These two forces, especially in the context...

Topics: - Capital flows to emerging markets and the role of global and idiosyncratic factors in driving banking, portfolio flows and asset prices in emerging markets, - The impact of policy normalisation in developed economies on liquidity and credit conditions in emerging markets, - The impact...

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

Under the theme Fast-Tracking Market Integration in Africa through Industrial Corridors, the 27th World Economic Forum on Africa will convene regional and global leaders from business, government and civil society to explore instruments that can accelerate effective regional industrial...

We welcome contributions linking economic convergence to: - balanced and sustainable growth in the global economy, including global imbalances, - sectoral reallocation (and unconditional convergence), - total factor productivity, - the quality of institutions, - income distribution and the...

Topics: - The role of debt and leverage in macroeconomic dynamics, determinants of public and private debt sustainability, and the implications of simultaneous public and private deleveraging. - The sustainability of adjustments. - Early warning systems used to detect macroeconomic and fiscal...

Under the theme Redefining Public Private Cooperation for a New Beginning, this meeting will bring together high-level leaders from government, civil society and business for an issue-based interaction that takes stock of promises made in the election manifesto and explores how to collectively...

Under the theme “Unlocking Resources for Economic Growth”, the meeting will focus in particular on four pillars: - Turkey’s vision and future, particularly in regard to its G20 leadership - Shifting energy dynamics across the region - The future of infrastructure, both physical and...

This biannual workshop provides a forum for the presentation of new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics that are of particular relevance to the 2014 workshop include: - forecasting in heterogeneous parameter and multi-country settings; - models for conditional forecasts and...

The workshop provides a forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applied contributions that can help identify new directions for forecasting, particularly in the light of the issues raised by the recent financial and sovereign debt crises. The ongoing turbulence in the global economy,...