The organizers of the 2021 annual conference invite papers that discuss drivers and challenges of social policies, including but not restricted to social policies related to the COVID-19 crisis. Papers can have a global, world regional, national, subnational, and/or local perspective. Especially...

Due to covid-19, the workshop and the conference are cancelled.

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference will have three separate streams, each addressing a specific area. The streams are: 1) macroeconomics and methodology; 2) microeconomics and psychology; and 3) consensus, expertise, and trust in economics. Focusing on those debates will be informative because they are timely and...

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...

This symposium aims to raise awareness of the significance of the GPA in today’s international economy. It will address policy-related issues on government procurement, both generally and as they relate to trade, governance and development. Its purpose is to inform participants of WTO...

Submissions are solicited both for the meeting’s thematic sessions on "The Solvency of Pension Systems" and for the meeting’s general sessions (on any topic relevant to the SSES). Submissions across a wide range of topics in relevant fields such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance,...

Topics: - Quality of life in the contemporary world - Social policy as a tool for development - Social change in former communist societies - Post-transition societies - Changes in subjective wellbeing - International migration and quality of life. - Child protection in a changing world - Social...

The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

The workshop is thematically oriented towards empirical methods in macroeconomic policy analysis. Understanding macroeconomic phenomena and designing macroeconomic policies requires adequate tools for extracting useful information from existing data. Motivated by this observation and fueled by...