This is the first time that the Congress to be convened in Asia under its new name, the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law. There are also two new practices which will be adopted for this Congress. First of all, rather than just submitting their written reports as was...

The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss recent developments in computational methods, methodology for data analysis and applications in statistics. It is associated with the Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (CSDA), the official journal of the...

Can Slovenia sharpen its competitive edge? Despite healthy growth, the business community expects the new government to markedly improve Slovenian competitiveness and remove obstacles to doing business. But will the new government rise to the challenge? Slovenia isn’t looking as attractive as...

Among the topics which could be addressed are · cost functions of payment and settlement operators · costs of fragmentation and efficiency implications of unifying payment systems · pricing strategies of payment services and their welfare implications · consolidation in the payments industry...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

(1) Transition Economics and Law, (2) European Law and Economics, (3) Intellectual Property and Property, (4) Torts and Crimes, (5) Contracts and Contractual Regulation, (6) Corporate law and Corporate Governance, (7) Litigation and Production of Legal Rules, (8) Public Law and Economics, (9)...

Getting an accurate picture of poverty and inequality trends and patterns in the world’s most populous country is central to understanding changes in global inequality and poverty – these alter significantly when China is included or excluded. China has achieved dramatic improvements in...

The two-day conference will span a broad range of topics, including growth, trade and finance for development; poverty and inequality; strategies for poverty reduction; conflict; and economic policy-making for development. Presentations will deal not only with current research issues but will...

The purpose of the workshop is to promote the stimulation and dissemination of experimental economics research in Finland. To this end, the workshop includes keynote lectures by internationally distinguished specialists in the field. It will also provide PhD students and researchers from Finland...