How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

The seminar introduces the participants to the methods, techniques and theories commonly used in their research area. It also offers possibilities for young researchers to get in contact with their peers, to explore new avenues of thinking, to learn collectively and to exchange ideas in a very...

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms’ activity, the organization of production and financing decision, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. This year’s issue of the conference...

The third Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN) offers an opportunity to bring together staff of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), think-tanks, and donor agencies involved in private sector development with academics who study private firms and...

Die Hochschulgruppenversammlung stellt die Kommunikations- und Gestaltungsplattform für Aktivitäten und Vorhaben der Studierenden im VWI e.V. dar. Neben dem Informationsaustausch werden hier verbandsbezogene Entscheidungen getroffen und die studentischen Vorstandsmitglieder in den...

The workshop will bring together researchers working on topics including, but not necessarily limited to, dynamic contracting, delegation, information acquisition and learning. Programme Areas: Organizational Economics. The organisers hope that this workshop can take place physically in Turin...

The event promotes scientific research using enterprise microdata on a variety of topics and from different (and inter) disciplinary approaches. Topics: Productivity, Firm dynamics, Resource reallocation and adjustment costs, International trade, Information and communication technology, R&D,...

The 2021 Conference Main Theme is “Inclusive Entrepreneurship”. Inclusive entrepreneurship aims to contribute to social inclusion to give all people an equal opportunity to start up and operate businesses. However, there are many socio-economic and structural barriers for individuals into...

The aim of the conference is to investigate how macroeconomic policies affect business dynamism and how that affects macroeconomic aggregates. Of particular interest are papers that study these issues in light of the current challenges posed by the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the broader...

The conference focuses on research in economics, finance and management with applications to and implications for real-life problems with societal impact. Conference Key Topics: Banking and Finance; Empirical corporate finance; Empirical industrial organization; Labour and education economics;...