Topics: Asset returns and spending; Spending effects of unemployment events; Welfare consequences of social insurance programs; The impact of mortgage refinancing on spending; Validation of new spending measures; Consumption inequality; Spending effects of public policies; Insurance within the...

The 2019 conference will bring together leading-edge views of academic scholars, insightful practitioners and policymakers to examine current issues and the driving forces of International Entrepreneurship (IE). The conference is designed to bring together state-of-the art research from the...

Economic historians have recently made much progress in reconstructing historical national accounts and quantifying other economic variables for the last millennium. This work has implications for the stylised facts that growth economists seek to explain in their analysis. At the same time, it...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It...

We invite papers and special sessions that address (but are not limited to) the following themes: - Methodological innovation in interpretive consumer research (e.g. new modes of representation); - New or reassessment of existing philosophical approaches to understanding consumption; - The...