This year’s workshop will have a focus on the relationship between violent conflict and socio-economic development. We invite submissions that address key issues in conflict and economic development analysis. We also welcome submissions from other disciplines on the usual HiCN topics around...

Environment and development concerns will remain on the agendas, although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resource management issues in developing and developed economies. The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment...

Panel I - What kind of political integration might revitalise the European project? How to solve Dani Rodrik’s “fundamental political trilemma” in the European context? Panel II - The growing role of the CEE in the EU Panel III - The CEE countries’ choices – reassessing the value of...

The Lviv Forum on Forests in a Green Economy for countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia will bring together different stakeholders, policy makers and international experts to share experiences and explore opportunities for implementing the concepts and requirements of the Green...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: - Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.) - Local Public Economics and...

Topics: - Inequality measurements - Economic growth, inequalities and poverty - Polarization, fragmentation, discrimination and horizontal inequalities - Economic and social mobility - Constitution of the middle classes - Poverty, vulnerability and vertical inequalities - Inequalities of...

We welcome proposals in all aspects of "Population Cliometrics and Unified Growth Theory" covering a wide range of periods and countries.

The conference has traditionally focused on issues of postal sector regulation (in particular, universal service). The development of electronic means of communication and mobility affects the core business of the postal sector. To account for new synergies with media markets, advertising and...

IZA and DFID organize the first workshop in their joint program on growth and labor markets in low-income countries. The GLM-LIC program aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labor market issues in low-income countries and provide a solid basis for capacity building and the development of...

Theoretical and empirical papers on the measurement and analysis of economic insecurity and vulnerability, and the implications for economic growth, well-being and policies, are solicited.