The MIE conference is designed to bring together state-of-the art research from the fields of entrepreneurship, SMEs and international business. The goal is to analyze patterns and forces, which in the future will influence international entrepreneurship. Special sub- themes are: - how new...

We welcome submissions of full-length papers using micro and macro analyses, theoretical and empirical. Some examples of topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Factors affecting accumulation of human capital (health, education, skills) - Linkages between human capital, demography...

Alp-Pop brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology and psychology. We welcome submissions on all population issues (e.g. population and health, migration, families and the...

The conference brings together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors, and features keynote speakers Darrell Duffie (Stanford University) and Richard Berner (US Office of Financial Research). Questions for discussion will include: - How do global interconnections arise, and what...

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...

Global economic risks is the overall theme of the 8th Annual Meeting of Swiss Finance Institute. Recent decades have witnessed an acceleration in economic globalization processes that has run far in advance of existing global governance arrangements. The resulting tension, together with a...

The main theme of the Vaasa Conference on International Business is “Value Creation in Internationalization”. Both qualitative and quantitative papers based on single or multi-country samples especially in the following research areas (although also papers related to other areas are...

Sessions will cover the following (preliminary) list of themes: - Industry and Growth: What’s New? - Deindustrialization in Africa: What Went Wrong and Why? - Breaking-in: Can Africa Enter Global Markets? - Industrial Development and Infrastructure: How Large a Constraint? - Industrial...

Europa ist in einer anhaltenden Krise und steht vor ausserordentlich grossen Herausforderungen. Wie geht es in der EU weiter? Zudem zeichnet sich ab, dass auch das bilaterale Verhältnis zwischen der Schweiz und der EU vor wichtigen Entscheidungen auf beiden Seiten steht. Was sind die nächsten...