The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

Das Kolloquium richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler, die auf den Gebieten der Ordnungsökonomik, der Wirtschaftspolitik und der Rechtsökonomik forschen und lehren. Erwünscht wird die Einreichung von Forschungsarbeiten, die sich mit Themen der Ordnungsökonomik und Rechtsökonomik...

The workshop intends to provide a platform for the discussion of new ideas in the structural evaluation of labour market policies. Particular attention will be given to modeling labour market policies in presence of search-and-matching frictions and information asymmetries. Submission of...

ie realen ökonomischen Probleme unserer Zeit, wie der zunehmende Verbrauch natürlicher Ressourcen oder die Massenarbeitslosigkeit in vielen von der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise betroffenen Ländern, finden in den Lehrplänen für ökonomische Studiengänge noch immer zu wenig...

Topics: - The tradeoff between the speed of fiscal consolidation and the strength of anti-cyclical policy in the current macroeconomic environment and in general, - The roles played by different fiscal policy instruments, - The effects of anti-cyclical policy in theory and in practice, -...

The workshop has the aim of bringing together high quality papers that deal with (i) wage dispersion and inequality; (ii) worker heterogeneity and mismatch unemployment; (iii) labor market policy. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome.

This biannual workshop provides a forum for the presentation of new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics that are of particular relevance to the 2014 workshop include: - forecasting in heterogeneous parameter and multi-country settings; - models for conditional forecasts and...