Conference themes: 1. Governance; crime and violence prevention 2. Evaluating responses to shocks 3. Labor markets (including child labor), pensions, migration, and remittances 4. Urban development 5. Health and nutrition; HIV/AIDS 6. Demand-and supply-side incentive 7. Support to diversifying...

The theme of this year’s symposium is “The role of operations management in delivering business performance”. Topics: - Operations management - Supply chain management - Service strategy development - Logistics - E-business operations - Productivity and process improvement - Project...

The scope of ISAR is intended to be broad and includes research papers and panels that deal with economic and behavioral aspects of auditing, attestation and assurance. Papers that utilize any of a broad range of research methodologies will be considered. General topics of interest include...

Topics of debate: - Analysis of the capitalist management of the economy and proposals for global self-management. - The new crisis of global capitalism: analysis and responses from the perspective of the workers’ economy. - Self-management: the historical assessment. - Self-management in its...

The topics will include banking, corporate finance, asset pricing, market microstructure, insurance, securitization among others. Both theoretical and empirical papers are encouraged. It is anticipated that most of the participants will be from universities, central banks, regulatory agencies,...

All fields of specialization within economics will be considered.

The conference will bring together leading academics and members of the investment banking industry to focus on new issues in global capital markets. The financial community is invited to submit research papers in the following, not all-inclusive, areas: - Impact of globalization on contagion,...

The course will be given by Badi H. Baltagi, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Syracuse University. Professor Baltagi is an internationally renowned expert on the econometrics of panel data whose publications—including well-known textbooks—have contributed to the development of this...

Program: - Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa - The School Reentry Decision of Poor Girls. Structural Estimation and Policy Analysis Using PROGRESA Database - Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Improve Work and Earnings among its Youth Beneficiaries? Evidence after a...

In addition to the regular sessions in all fields of labor economics, special sessions on Social Protection and Labor Markets will be featured. The previous global recession has demonstrated the importance of social protection and shown that economic growth alone is insufficient to deal with...