Since 2008, the Bank for International Settlements and the World Bank, in corporation with partner institutions, have organized this biennial conference to discuss policy issues, quantitative methods and current challenges for central banks, sovereign wealth funds and public pension plans. The...

This conference has been cancelled.

Conference Themes: - Biophysical Limits, - Equity, Social Justice and the Commons, - Alternative Movements and Discourses, - Finance, Markets and Ecological Macroeconomics, - Pathways to Change: Tools and Strategies.

The main objective of the conference is to take stock of the state of current research and identify knowledge gaps: - How can poverty data be used to compare the situation in different industrialized nations? - What are the scope and the limitations of such comparisons? - How can we define the...

The Conference will provide a forum for the first international academic debate on the Fifth Cohesion Report between regional studies researchers and senior officials from the European institutions. The key topics of the conference will be: the contribution of cohesion policy to Europe 2020, the...

RC19’s annual conference brings together leading international scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies covering all parts of the globe and encompassing a wide range of disciplines including sociology, social policy and political science.

Third sector organisations in Central and Eastern European Countries reveal similar characteristics that simultaneously distinguish them from third sector organisations in other societies. These inward similarities and outward differences can be explained in the context of the state-socialist...

Papers in all fields of interest to the IARIW, i.e. all papers that advance knowledge about income and wealth are welcome. Submissions in the following fields are particularly encouraged: input-output tables, theory and practice; PPPs; satellite accounts for non-profit institutions; and...

This conference will focus on the relationship between pricing of transportation infrastructure and investments. It will consider institutional mechanisms such as earmarking of revenues, transportation funds, Public Private Partnerships, and inter-government relationships that facilitate (or...