Theme: Sustainability in the Food Sector: Rethinking the Relationship between the Agro-Food System and the Natural, Social, Economic and Institutional Environment. Topics: - Methodologies for Measuring Sustainability in the Food System - Integrated Life-Cycle Assessment and Performance...

This annual workshop, which started in 2001 as the Villa Mondragone Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics, is designed to stimulate the interaction between senior economists and doctoral students working on both theoretical and empirical economic issues, and well ahead in their dissertation.

Areas of interest include, but not limited to: • Term structure modelling of risk-free and defaultable bonds • Interest rate derivatives • Term structure and the real economy • Risk premia in bond markets

The I.S.E.O. Summer School introduces to some of the principles of international economy, investigating the role of different Countries in the international economic scenario. It focuses on growth, on the strategies and instruments of monetary policy, on the structure and mechanisms of the...

Technology has been identified with a host of problems and solutions that are closely linked with aims for sustainable development in lowand middle-income countries. It is an essential enabling feature of globalization, and local applications of technology offer possibilities for building...

The workshop aims at having empirical and methodological contributions on economic and social inequality under a comparative perspective. The workshop is organized into two sessions, dedicated to themes of crucial importance in present economic and policy debates. The first session focuses on...

Topics: - Monetary Policy and Banking - Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy - Empirical Issues in Fiscal and Monetary Policy - Investment and the Business Cycle - Monetary Policy and Credit Markets Imperfections - Distortionary Taxation and Monetary Policy - Macroeconomic Policy...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It...

The conference will focus on papers that provide both theoretical and empirical evidence on the of fiscal policy on economic performance, both in the short run and the longer run. To what degree can a fiscal stimulus be used to ease an economic downturn? What are the risks and longer-run costs...

The 2010 conference will focus on lessons learned from the Canadian economic performance and management over the last fifteen years and its response to the recent global crisis. Thus, drawing from the Canadian experience of sustained long-run growth and an effective response to a large shock,...