The goal of the conference is to bring together leading economists working on public economics in developing countries. The event provides an opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term collaborative...

Workshop schedule: - Monetizing the Economy: National Banks and Local Liquidity Creation; - Flight-to-safety and the Real Effect of Banking Crises. Evidence from theFrench Great Depression; - From Finance to Fascism: The Real Effect of Germany’s 1931 BankingCrisis; - Does Credit Affect Stock...

The objective of this special conference is to draw lessons from these disciplines to help inform and shape how the international development community moves forward in defining, measuring and monitoring poverty.

This is one of the three Research Clusters set up by the Heads of Research of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), with the aim of fostering interaction and collaboration between ESCB researchers working on fields of common interest. Topics: - The impact and implementation of...

Social and economic ties play a major role in our lives. They are crucial in shaping and explaining for example technology adoption, peer effects, co-authorships, smoking behavior, obesity, school performance, information diffusion, migration etc. In recent years, interest in social and economic...

The Program Committee welcomes submissions in the field of International Macroeconomics. In particular, we are interested in theoretical or empirical papers addressing issues including (but not limited to): - International monetary system - Monetary trilemma - Sovereign debt crises -...

Conference program: Session I. G20 @ 20. The Debate on Global Imbalances: Past, Present, Future; Session II. China: 40 Years of Opening Up. New Challenges ahead for the World Economy; Session III. Emerging Economies: Managing the Permanence of Spillovers; Session IV. G20 @ 20. Reforms for Global...

Standard economics has been the subject of many critiques. Mainstream economic models and analysis rely on a level of sophistication that is hard to justify from an introspective viewpoint but also considering the large body of experimental evidence. Recent years have witnessed a flurry of...

Institutions and social frictions (associated with inequalities, political conflicts, corruption, and cultural polarization) have emerged as central themes in development economics. This course takes stock of existing research and moves on to draw the outline of the current research frontier....