PROGRAM: - "Competing for Labor through Contracts: Selection, Matching, Firm Organization and Investments" Orie Shelef (Stanford University), with Amy Nguyen-Chyung - "Discrimination and Worker Evaluation" Kevin Lang (Boston University), with Costas Cavounidis - "Statistical Discrimination and...

Massive transformations in how and where energy is produced and consumed are drastically changing our energy economy. This dynamic energy landscape is challenging government and industry decision makers to formulate a clear path forward. Policy and investment decisions need to balance the use of...

The first International FDZ Data User Workshop will bring together researchers and emerging scholars who work with German Social Security data in the network of Research Data Centers (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Researchers will...

To provide the best opportunity for a comprehensive exchange of ideas concerning new empirical research in energy economics, the 2015 workshop is designed to allow time for a full presentation and discussion of each contribution. All sessions are held in plenary sessions (no concurrent...

The rapidly changing landscape of commodity markets has important implications for research in finance, monetary economics, industry organization, development economics, international trade, and macroeconomics. The conference will bring together economists working in these areas who share...