This conference seeks to bring together innovative research related to these challenges, aiming to provide guidance to policy. In particular, we are interested in research studies (not yet published) that focus on one or more of the following topics: - Public and private investments in shaping...

Topics: - Competitiveness policies in small open economies - Structural transformation and distributional consequences - Industrial policies facing inequality and political populism - Transition to low-carbon economies from firm-level perspective - The interaction between monetary and...

Topics: - Market power in input and output markets: stylized facts, drivers and static and dynamic implications for misallocation, innovation, productivity and growth; - Industrial concentration, market power and investment: firm-level impact and consequences for the aggregate economy; - Firm...

The aim of the next workshop of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to dig deeper into localisation economies and associated productivity gains. The increasing availability of new cross-border databases at the firm...