Guiding Questions: - How did trade policy affect the expansion of services trade and labor market outcomes over the last decades? - Which services sectors are most important for employment generation and how can services trade reform contribute to expanding them? - What are the employment links...

ESSET 2015 will be devoted to ‘Persuasion and Information Acquisition’, and ‘Reviews and Feedback Mechanisms’. Focus sessions in the first week (29 June - 3 July) will be organised by Emir Kamenica (University of Chicago) and Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn and CEPR) around the theme...

Submissions are solicited both for the meeting’s thematic sessions on "The Solvency of Pension Systems" and for the meeting’s general sessions (on any topic relevant to the SSES). Submissions across a wide range of topics in relevant fields such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance,...

Das Rahmenthema der Jahrestagung 2015 ist „Internationales Management in und aus Emerging Countries“. Die Kerneigenschaften der Schwellenländer – u.a. hohe Wachstumsraten, dynamischer Wandel der ökonomischen Strukturen, instabiler institutioneller Rahmen, niedrige, aber rasch steigende...

Die Schweiz beschäftigt sich intensiv mit ihrer Migrationspolitik, wobei heftig über eine allfällige Eingrenzung der Zuwanderung diskutiert wird. Immer wieder werden die Einwandernden für hiesige strukturelle Probleme wie mangelnde Wohnungen, Defizite bei den Sozialversicherungen oder...

Complexity, fragility and uncertainty are potentially ending an era of economic integration and international partnership that began in 1989. What is clear is that we are confronted by profound political, economic, social and, above all, technological transformations. They are altering...

The Latsis Symposium 2012 asks the provocative question: Can economics as a scientific discipline benefit from the natural sciences? During the three-day interdisciplinary symposium, this question will be discussed by leading researchers from economics and the natural sciences. Particular...

The conference aims at bringing together researchers in corporate finance, banking and macroeconomics to explore topics at the intersection of these fields. The focus will be on the impact of banking and financial markets on the real economy with a mix of theory and empirical studies. The themes...

Focus 2012: The Dynamics of Migration Migration is a complex phenomenon that has the potential to transform individuals and societies by affecting employment, development, culture, trade, investment, and environment. At the same time, these factors also influence migration patterns and the lives...

The aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of research ideas and results across a range of fields, including the economics of the household, labour economics, public economics, demography, and health economics. Examples of research topics are: human capital investment, gender...