The Congress general theme is ‘Financial System and the International Economy Post-Crisis’. The Congress will have two special sessions: ‘Strategies for economic growth after the crisis – global and Brazilian economy’ and ‘Spread of Keynesianism in Brazil: in honour of Prof Fernando...

The VICO project (Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures in Europe: impact on innovation, employment growth, and competitiveness) is funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission within the theme "The role of finance in growth, employment and competitiveness in Europe" This...

Contributed sessions: - Oligopoly Theory - Contracts and Incentives - Empirical IO - Experiments in IO - Auction Theory - Vertical Relations - Competition Policy - Regulation - Industrial Policy - The Economics of R&D

The workshop aims to gather methodological and applied contributions focussed on the ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the following kinds of national or regional innovation policies: - R&D and innovation incentives at the level of single firms; - business networking; - technology transfer; -...

Potential topics include: - Unique characteristics of Latin American MNCs and Multilatinas - Applicability of core strategy theories (i.e., the resource based view, organizational economics, strategic group theory, agency theory, institutional theory) to this region - Differences between...