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...

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Earnings inequality and workers’ well-being - Precarious versus stable jobs - Informality and job quality - Innovative ways to measure the quality of the work environment - The impact of early entry into the labor market on job quality - Gender...

Theme: "Innovations in Higher Education" EFMD aims to facilitate research and a dialogue on topics related to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Business Schools by bringing together academics from management, higher education and related fields. We are inviting submissions of research...

The workshop is aimed at bringing together scholars involved with various aspects of banking in emerging markets, including but not limited to those of Central and Eastern Europe, CIS countries, Latin America and China. The organizing committee welcomes submissions of both empirical and...

The overall theme of the meeting will be “Water Security in a Changing World.” Topics: - Addressing the food-energy-health environment and water nexus - Assessing large- and small-scale irrigation investments - Moving toward integrated urban and basin management - Dealing with groundwater...

The workshop intends to bring together researchers from the fields of migration and climate/disaster research. The submission of both theoretical and empirical papers is welcome. Preference will be given to papers studying the link between climate change/natural disasters and migration.

The workshop will present research in the field of income (re-)distribution with a political economy focus. In recent years, a substantial amount of political and academic attention has been given to the topic of income (re-)distribution. Despite this broad attention, political economy...

We welcome economic or econometric contributions on the following and related issues: - National safety as a public good - Strategic behavior and credible commitments (initiated by Thomas Schelling) - The theory of conflicts (initiated by Gordon Tullock, Jack Hirshleifer and Kai Konrad) - Theory...

In recent years, however, economic relationships have become more fragile. Established relationships appear to be increasingly threatened by various types of shocks, including natural and man-made disasters, the imposition of sanctions, and the dissolution of existing institutional arrangements....

In many societies, a large fraction of the population is involved in philanthropic activities like charitable giving or volunteering, as recipients or providers. Accompanying this are significant levels of public support for such activities. Yet in spite of this, the evidence base is inadequate....