Conference streams: 1. Diffusion of Ideas 2. Towards a European Social Policy? 3. Globalization and Social Policy 4. On the Interrelationship of Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability 5. Comparative Methodology- Reforms of Social Security Programs as Case 6. Welfare Funding 6a)...

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

The main goal of this symposium is to bring the econometricians or economists from the world to Xiamen to create a great environment for discussions and exchanges in expanding the frontiers of econometrics research and also to celebrate Professor Hausman on his outstanding contributions to...