Conference programme: - Childless Aristocrats. Inheritance and the extensive margin of fertility; - Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach; - Can Redistribution Lead to Economic Development?

The widespread use of dollars for invoicing international trade and pricing internationally traded goods and services has sharp implications for (i) the transmission of business cycle shocks, be they regional or global, and (ii) the conduct of stabilization policies. Much of the recent open...

Recent studies project populations reaching levels of 12-14 billion individuals by the end of the century. This raises a set of questions regarding food security, pandemic threats, and environmental crisis. These issues relate back to Thomas Malthus and the concerns he raised relating to...

This conference aims to provide an overview of frontier research analyzing the micro-level underpinnings of aggregate technology and aggregate economic performance. Some of the sub-topics include: - Firms and productivity - Firms and inequality - Firms and innovation - Firms and technology in...

This conference will focus on applications using big data or big data tools in any field or on research focusing on interesting economic questions that arise from considering the rapid changes in data availability, computational technology, software, and econometric methods.

Researchers with an interest in political economy are invited to submit papers for the 2012 Silvaplana workshop. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The website is no longer available.