Migrants from Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and North Africa continue to make their home in Western Europe - but how well are their needs being met? Migrant banking in Europe offers a range of exciting opportunities for both financial and non-financial players. For instance, there is a small...

Recent developments in general equilibrium theory focus on strategic interactions. Several models offer strategic foundations for the theory of perfect competition. Others analyze the functioning of markets and the working of market power in economies where competition takes place on multiple...

Proposals for presentations on the economics of the firm in general and especially on this year’s theme – Economics of the Firm and the Economics of Strategy – are invited. The general philosophy of the workshop is precisely to present modern ideas which borrow from economic principles and...

The Congress general theme is ‘Financial System and the International Economy Post-Crisis’. The Congress will have two special sessions: ‘Strategies for economic growth after the crisis – global and Brazilian economy’ and ‘Spread of Keynesianism in Brazil: in honour of Prof Fernando...

We welcome contributions from theorists and empiricists alike who are interested in broadening our understanding of the economics of welfare which continues to flourish. Following work by Sen, Stiglitz and others that has helped to bring about the Sarkozy Report, the EU’s Beyond GDP memorandum...

The objective of the seminar is to discuss theoretical and empirical contributions to the estimation of production frontiers and measurement of efficiency.

We invite both theoretical and empirical papers on one of the following topics: Financial Risks, Bank Risks, Major Risks, Health and Ageing, Risk and Regulation.

Potential topics include: - Unique characteristics of Latin American MNCs and Multilatinas - Applicability of core strategy theories (i.e., the resource based view, organizational economics, strategic group theory, agency theory, institutional theory) to this region - Differences between...

Topics: - Entry, exit and firms’ survival - Innovation and new entrants - The spatial dimension of firm demography - Entrepreneurship and firm demography - Industry dynamics and firm demography - Job destruction, jobs creation and firm dynamics - Internationalization (trade, ownership and FDI)...

Contributions from economics and the social sciences are invited. Possible fields of enquiry include: - Social cohesion and growth - Social cohesion and inequality - Governance, institutions and social cohesion - Social cohesion and (global) public goods - Education policies and social...