The overall theme is: “THE ROLE OF THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIES.” However, Abstracts focusing on broader agricultural economics, sustainability and productivity topics are welcome. This collaborative effort seeks to provide an expanded...

We seek to encourage scholars dedicated to the study of economic ideas in Latin America to connect the literatures on imperialism and the superiority of economists — expanding, criticizing or enriching them, and also assessing their implications for theoretical, empirical, multidisciplinary...

This edition of the Uruguayan Economic History Conference will constitute, just as in earlier editions, a space for meeting, discussion, reflection and collaboration that reinforces the links that unite the community of Uruguayan Economic Historians with colleagues in other countries, as well as...

The Forum will provide a key platform for participants to share information and discuss the most important regional social security challenges and priority issues in the Americas. The Forum is open to ISSA members from the Americas and invited participants only.

Learn more about whether tax incentives for saving in pension accounts cause debt accumulation in Danish households; about the interaction between housing and pension savings when people make long term decisions; and about alternative approaches to decumulation of DC capital. Take part in...

Invited Lectures, Program 16.06.2016: - The Rise of the In-Work Safety Net: Implications for Families in Strong and Weak Labor Markets. Hilary Hoynes, UC Berkeley and NBER; - The Effects of Immigration on Wages and Employment. Christian Dustmann, University College London and CEPR; - Income...

The theme of the conference is Cultural policy in a transformed cultural landscape. The cultural sector is in motion. The classic cultural institutions are being redefined and new types of institutions have appeared. The mediatization, including social media, that blurs the boundaries between...

The Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Teoría Económica (JOLATE) is an international conference initiated and organized by scholars from Latin America and is recognized by the Latin American Econometric Society. Scholars and Researchers from all over the world are most cordially welcome to...

Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...