The theme of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists’ (PSDE) 29th Annual General Meeting and Conference – “Energy Security and Economic Sustainability: The Way Forward” – is chosen to bridge this gap. It is hoped that research presented and debate generated at the Conference...

Topics: 1. Introduction: Key Theoretical Concepts and Empirics of Political Economy 2. Collective Choice and Voting 3. The Role of the State and Different Political Regimes 4. Institutional Change and Democratization versus Persistence and Dysfunctional Democracies 5. Beliefs, Culture and...

AT THIS EVENT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: - IDENTIFY new production and investment opportunities across Latin America - LOOK at intra-region and international trade flows and identify supply gaps for both fuel and non-fuel ethanol - HEAR first-hand the strategic issues ethanol producers from across the...

For 2013 the SHE Conference theme is Heterodox economics and the crisis that won’t go away. Despite a prolonged economic crisis, which has led to increasing levels of unemployment and low rates of growth, particularly throughout Europe and in the USA, governments and mainstream economists are...

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, special emphasis will be given on areas such as: - The role of central banks and monetary policy - The role of fiscal policy - The conduct of monetary policy under zero bound conditions - The role of, and prospects for, economic growth - The...

Wir wollen uns auf dem Herbstforum mit den Schlüsselthemen Arbeitsmarkt, Sozialpolitik und der Rolle der Gewerkschaften auseinandersetzen, um einerseits die Gefahren, die sich auf nationaler wie europäischer Ebene zeigen, deutlich zu benennen, aber andererseits gezielt die neuen und...

Die Konferenz soll die folgenden Fragen aufgreifen: - Welche Fakten sprechen dafür, dass die von der Krise am stärksten betroffenen Staaten in Europa dabei sind, die Rezession zu überwinden, welche sprechen dagegen? - Wie viel Konvergenz und Divergenz in der Europäischen Währungsunion sind...