The conference has the following thrust areas: Testing trade theories; Trade indices; Facilitation Mechanisms for International Trade; Regional Economic Integration; Tariff and Non-tariff barriers; Firm level issues in international business (e.g. internationalization of business); Trade Related...

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For the workshop, we invite PhD-students in sociology and political science to submit abstracts related to the topic of “Ageing Societies and the Welfare State”. The contributions may be qualitative, quantitative, or conceptual. Country-comparative studies are especially welcome.

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

This workshop aims to bring together economic theorists, applied economists, demographers, and economic historians working on unified growth theory. It will provide a forum for discussion of recent research on what facilitated the transition to self-sustaining growth. Some of the possible topics...

Main Theme: “Globalization, Liberalization, Informatization and Human Behavior" Topics: 1. Theory of Economic Policy 2. Public Finance and Fiscal policy 3. Monetary and Financial Policy 4. Growth, Development and Population Policy 5. Industrial Organization and Industrial Structural Policy 6....

The conference will focus on the causes and consequences of global imbalances. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, international risk-sharing and portfolio choices, current account and international investment position dynamics, international asset pricing and valuation...

This 2-day conference will combine high-profile keynote speakers with academic sessions focusing on different aspects of integration and a round table discussion on the future of European integration. Topics: Financial, monetary, and fiscal integration; Optimum Currency Areas; European banking...

Both theoretical and applied contributions to environmental and natural resources economics and to economic growth literature are welcome, especially if their focus is on one of the following subfields: - Energy, - Preferences, - Normative aspects of sustainable development, - Health and...

The conference will showcase research on these issues from (social) science and technology studies, and feminist and post-colonial studies under the framework of the project Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West Comparative Study (KNOWING, Framework Programme 6, www.knowing.soc.cas.cz).