With unemployment rising and potential growth faltering, labor market reform has become more necessary than ever in OECD countries. Divergences remain however vivid regarding the direction of reforms: Which labor contracts? What role for labor taxation? Which minimum wages? What role for labor...

Environment and development concerns will remain on the agendas, although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resource management issues in developing and developed economies. The IPCC will release its 5th Assessment...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers in behavioural economics, environmental economics and psychology to present and discuss their on going research on issues at the interface between economics, environment, psychology and public policy. Possible topics include: -...

The Global Green Growth Forum is a partnership between the Governments of Denmark, Korea and Mexico, leading global corporations and international organizations. 3GF annually convenes a select group of 200 political and business leaders to give momentum to long-term sustainable growth through...

The Lviv Forum on Forests in a Green Economy for countries in Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia will bring together different stakeholders, policy makers and international experts to share experiences and explore opportunities for implementing the concepts and requirements of the Green...

The Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields of public economics, both applied and theoretical. Are especially (but not exclusively) requested papers in the following categories of topics: - Taxation (including transfers, social security, etc.) - Local Public Economics and...

Invited presentations (conditional to others unexpected duties) will be given Marcus HAGEDORN (Zurich University, Switzerland), Philipp KIRCHER (London School of Economics, UK), Per KRUSSEL (Institute for International Economic Studies, IIES Stockholm University), Damba LKHAGVASUREN (Concordia...

The conference seeks to provide an intellectual forum for scholars of political economy, politics and international relations. We welcome participation from faculty, graduate students, independent scholars, and practitioners analyzing the issues confronting the welfare state (i.e. unemployment,...

We are interested in all type of contributions related to search and matching. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. We strongly encourage junior academics and PHD students to present a paper.