Themen: - Auswirkungen von Finanz- und Immobilienkrisen auf die Konjunktur - Ölpreisanstieg und Rezession – Theorie und empirische Evidenz - Sollte die Geldpolitik Vermögenspreise berücksichtigen? - Die Rolle der Geldpolitik in der Finanzkrise - Finanzkrise und Schätzungen des...

Topics: - Fiscal and monetary policies when interest rates are at, or close to, the zero lower bound, including balance sheet and debt management considerations. - Modelling financial stability Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only.

The main objective of the workshop is to help the leaders of local governments and national level policy makers develop a strategic approach in dealing with environmental and social issues facing businesses. This can be achieved by: - Demonstrating the potentials of transforming SME clusters...

The workshop agenda will focus on issues related to uncertainty and learning as they relate to the economics and management of environmental and natural resources. Appropriate paper topics include decisions under uncertainty, the value of information, and different models of learning (including...

The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers, policy-makers, representatives of interest groups and the press to promote and exchange ideas in the field of shadow economy analysis.

Has the path to development through industrialization as we know it been exhausted? Or is the world at the dawn of a new era in industrialization and development? These are some of the questions that this two-day workshop aims to address. With the world in financial and economic crisis and...

Sustainably managing the local and the global commons requires not only an understanding of the environmental factors that affect them, but also a knowledge of the interactions and feedback cycles that operate between such resource dynamics and the socio-economic dynamics attributable to human...

At this IZA topic week we will bring together economists and labor economists who have worked on the political economy of reforms in general and of labor markets reforms in transition and emerging economies. As we can perceive the transition context as a quasi-natural experiment, it is...

The primary focus of the workshop is on graduate students, faculty and researchers at universities, public or private institutes, or government agencies involved in research in environmental and natural resource economics.