This is the second conference in a new series launched by the Institute of Economic History at Humboldt University on quantitative economic and social history. This workshop, to take place annually, continues and revives forty years of tradition of Wolfram Fischer’s seminar series at the Free...

Organized by the SEASREP Foundation, with support from the Toyota Foundation and Japan Foundation, the conference provides an occasion for SEASREP not merely to showcase its achievements over the years, but position itself as a regional institution and network in the next decade. The conference...

The wide range of topics to be covered by the studies may include but is not limited by: a) Globalization and the chronic poor b) ‘Corporate globalization’ and the poor. c) Threshold and externality effects of globalization and dynamics of ‘between-country inequality’ e) Global economic...

Meeting India’s resource needs for future infrastructure development is a long-term industrial challenge and will require adjustments in consumption patterns both within the country and across the region. The public and private sectors must develop a holistic approach to the problem, linking...

The organizers invite submission of empirical and theoretical papers on venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurship, the decision to go public, and intellectual property rights. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to): • The choice between alternative sources of financing for...

"Portugal, Europe and the Mediterranean: economies and societies in historical perspective" is the main subject of this meeting. Sevket Pamuk (from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogaziçi University) will be our Key Note speaker on Turkey and the Mediterranean in the Early...

The goal of this conference is to bring international researchers together, permitting a comparative analysis of wealth and economic development, globally, in the middle ages, c. 300-c.1500. What were the foundations of medieval growth? How was growth characterized? Who forged ahead in wealth,...

The new “new economy” involves not only novel information, but it is also characterized by increased spatial and functional fragmentations of the value-added chains. On the one hand they may give rise to information failures and problems of uncertainty which require the development of new...

The conference will focus on issues related to risk measurement and systemic risks from a central bank perspective. Special emphasis will be devoted to questions relating to sources and consequences of financial contagion and its relation to other forms of systemic risk, macro stress testing,...