Die politische Debatte um richtige und falsche Mittel zum Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit ist in vollem Gange: Verlängerung des Arbeitslosengeldes 1, Mindestlohn, Beitragssenkung bei der Arbeitslosenversicherung, Chaos bei der Arbeitsagentur. Nur die Zeitarbeit wird von manchen, obwohl sie boomt,...

We welcome research papers from doctoral students in the following areas: - Game Theory (Non-Cooperative and Cooperative) - Models of Social Interaction - Network Economics - Economics of Information and Incentives - Evolutionary Game Theory - Dynamic Economic Models - Financial Markets -...

Auf dem zweiten IT-Gipfel soll Bilanz gezogen werden über die in Potsdam verabredeten Schritte zur Stärkung des IKT-Standortes Deutschland. Darüber hinaus sollen neue Maßnahmen und künftige Schwerpunkte diskutiert werden.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to pro-mote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling.

The workshop presents recent research on gender-aspects of labour market policies. Theoretical and empirical work from different disciplines - in particular economics, sociology and psychology - is welcome.

Topics: a) Integrated modelling and management of market and credit risk. b) Joint pricing and trading of market and credit risk. c) Potential implications of the integrated modelling and pricing of market and credit risk for bank behaviour and capital holding.

Transferring economic theory in sound statistical models is still a key issue of applied econometrics. Moreover, it is a necessary condition for useful policy analysis and forecasting. Thus, the workshop will be a platform to discuss new developments in structural empirical modelling. Topics: -...

Topics: - information uncertainty and information combination (e.g. observation window, disaggregate information, role of judgement); - measurement uncertainty (e.g. real time analysis); - parameter and model uncertainty (e.g. forecast and model combination, forecast model selection).