Preliminary Course Title: International Financial Integration: Determinants of, and Welfare/Productivity Gains from. Empirical Estimation. Presenter: Bent E. Sørensen, Lay Professor of International Economics, University of Houston and CEPR. Background discussion: Investors all over the world...

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim invite the submission of theoretical as well as empirical work. This year's conference particularly welcomes theoretical and empirical papers with a focus on imbalances on capital and goods markets, labour markets,...

For the scientific sessions of our conference, we seek high-quality academic papers in areas such as: - EU debt crisis - Fiscal policy in the EU - Prospects of an EU fiscal union - Income and wealth inequality - Redistributive preferences - Optimal redistributive taxation - Financial sector...

The conference programme will include keynote addresses as well as presentations of contributed papers. The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim invite the submission of theoretical as well as empirical work. We particularly encourage the submission of...

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is pleased to announce the kick-off conference of its recently lanched research programme "Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies (SEEK)". The purpose of the conference is twofold: First, the conference...

This workshop invites empirical and theoretical contributions to this topic from all areas of labour economics and related fields such as the economics of education, industrial economics, health economics, international economics, or public finance. Micro- and macroeconomic papers are welcome.

Contributions on the econometric evaluation of policies fighting social exclusion are welcome. A non-exhaustive list of topics is: - Policies for long-term unemployed and welfare recipients - Econometric methods of evaluation - Rehabilitation policies - Policies for socially excluded and...

Topics: - Fiscal competition, - Tax burden comparisons and location decisions, - Fiscal federalism, - Public debt, - Tax policies: tax systems for globalised economies, - Impact of fiscal policy on growth.