This conference will provide an opportunity to analyze some of the issues mentioned above and review what we know on the role of skills and their use for promoting productive employment. The thematic sessions welcome papers: - Reviewing the measures of skills available in developing and emerging...

Researchers on development issues are invited to present papers for the EADI General Conference under the Working Group sessions. EADI Working Groups: - Aid Policy and Performance - Conflicts, Security and Development - Development Aid of the Non-DAC Donors - Development Evaluation - Disasters...

We encourage submissions in the fields (broadly defined) of macroeconomics, finance, econometrics, agent based modeling and computational methods.

This is an intensive week-long event, which comprises a series of lectures and practical sessions. The sessions will cover: - the objectives of monetary policy and optimal policy under commitment and discretion; - important estimation techniques; - financial market data and monetary policy; -...

The congress will cover a variety of topics in Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, such as statistics techniques in Finance and Actuarial Science, Portfolio Management, Derivative Valuation, Risk theory and Life and Pension Insurance Mathematics, Non-Life Insurance Mathematics, and...

The 2014 GDN Annual conference will be structured around three sub-themes to better understand the nature and prospect of structural transformations in Africa and beyond: - Determinants of growth, industrial and trade policies - Environmental sustainability, management of natural resources and...

The PEP-Laval Intensive Graduate School in Development Economics provides flexible, advanced and accelerated training in the understanding and promotion of economic development. The program offers three separate courses. 1. Development Policy Modeling - June 2 - June 6, 2014 2. Dynamics Impacts...

The workshop aims at exploring a general framework for the social sciences for investigating how competition processes interact with conflict and cooperation. This framework will provide a deeper understanding of social interactions, political reforms, the functioning of markets and political...

This workshop will demonstrate how to utilize computer-based, active learning techniques to teach economics with a special focus on Intermediate Macroeconomics. On the first day, we will work intensively with several Excel add-ins that have wide application, from performing comparative statics...