This meeting is at the same time the annual symposium of the CEPR Development Economics Programme, the Twentieth BREAD Development Economics Conference and AMID Third Network Annual Conference. We invite submissions for the CEPR/BREAD/AMID conference from interested researchers on any topics...

Topics: - risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions - transparency of risk models, within and outside the organization - compensation, risk-taking and risk management - endogenous risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk - benefits and pitfalls of reduced-form models in...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economic and development. This year it will focus on the political economy of international trade, with a particular emphasis on trade in services.

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

The meeting will include daily seminars in the morning, in which participants present their work, as well as less formal evening seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. In addition, four mornings will be devoted to 'focus sessions', each of which concentrates on some recent...

ESSET 2011 will be devoted to theoretical perspectives on financial crises. Focus sessions in the first week (4-8 July) will be organised around the theme of "Asset Pricing, Financial Stability, and the Crisis" . Focus sessions in the second week (11-15 July) will be organised around the theme...

This workshop will focus on the interplay between institutions and international capital flows. Topics to be covered include: · Political, legal and financial determinants of international capital flows · International capital flows, risk taking and financial fragility · International capital...

Topics: - Political and economic determinants of reforms - Information, the media and economic policies - Politics and the business cycle - Economic crises and political outcomes

Suitable research questions for submissions include (but are not limited to): - How do the dynamics of labor market variables vary across countries and what explains these differences? - How have labor market dynamics changed over time, e.g. with the recent financial crisis? - How have changes...

Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...