While often a regional or national approach has been used to analyze the economic effects of migration, recent evolutions have shown that the role of firms is extremely important in better understanding this phenomenon. On many occasions, it is firms choosing the migrant workers and initiating...

This workshop will focus on how governments set fiscal policy in the presence of mobile agents and how these agents respond. The workshop will feature both theoretical and empirical papers and welcomes papers containing both approaches. A goal of the workshop is to facilitate interactions...

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.

Over the past two decades, technological advances have facilitated an increasing international fragmentation of production processes. The academic literature has proposed several explanatory paradigms for this new form of trade. Some of these follow the lines of comparative advantage, while...

The workshop will bring together researchers who work on global supply chains and trade policy, theoretically and empirically.

The conference aims at bringing together researchers in corporate finance, banking and macroeconomics to explore topics at the intersection of these fields. The focus will be on the impact of banking and financial markets on the real economy with a mix of theory and empirical studies. The themes...

Topic: all areas of macroeconomics and finance in emerging markets

This workshop will focus on the interplay between institutions and international capital flows. Topics to be covered include: · Political, legal and financial determinants of international capital flows · International capital flows, risk taking and financial fragility · International capital...

The NOA & Marketforce's 6th Annual The Sourcing Summit will build on its prestigious reputation as the UK's leading conference focusing on all aspects of sourcing strategy, including outsourcing, offshoring, shared services and insourcing. This year's programme will reflect innovations across...

The outsourcing market is maturing, with companies re-examining their sourcing strategies, starting to outsource more complex operations, and moving into the next generation of contracts. This makes it an ideal time to examine what has been learnt from previous experiences, and how this can be...