One focus of the meeting is to offer young faculty an opportunity to present their current research in a forum attended by some of the senior researchers of the field in Spain. In addition to the invited speakers, a non-exhaustive list of the attending researchers includes the whole...

This event is designed mainly for those who use quantitative methods in economics, but it is open for the academic and scientific public at large, and also for technicians and professionals in this field. The traditional structure of the event is going to be maintained, including Ordinary...

This workshop aims to bring together economic theorists, applied economists, demographers, and economic historians working on unified growth theory. It will provide a forum for discussion of recent research on what facilitated the transition to self-sustaining growth. Some of the possible topics...

The tentative outline of the course is: 1. The Basic New Keynesian Model 2. Monetary Policy Design in the Basic New Keynesian Model a Baseline Model for Monetary Policy Analysis 3. Extensions of the Basic NK Model(I) 4. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (II) 5. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (III)

The Conference will focus on intercultural dialogue as the consequence of increasing multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious societies. Due to their complexities, the knowledge as to how to manage these processes is still limited. Conference participants are expected to contribute to...

In this 1st International Forum on Insularity in the Mediterranean the main focus areas will be four especially sensitive issues for island territories: agriculture and industry, tourism, transportation and communications and global change.

The conference will showcase research on these issues from (social) science and technology studies, and feminist and post-colonial studies under the framework of the project Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: an East-West Comparative Study (KNOWING, Framework Programme 6, www.knowing.soc.cas.cz).

The Annual Meetings of these two academic associations will be run in parallel, under a single local organization.

The IMF is forecasting a slowdown in world GDP growth, which would suggest that a new phase of the business cycle is beginning. Fears of financial fragility, concerns of falling house prices combined with inflationary pressures from rising commodity prices are leading to questions about the...

This workshop will provide an opportunity to encounter the work of researchers on the areas of managing water and wetland resources with the aim of integrating development within environmental constraints. The workshop will welcome any contribution on the problems raised by water management in...