WES Expert Group | Conference | Travel Cost Support IIPF | Summer School | SIRE Energy Economics Workshop | Scholarship
Join the WES Expert Group
The World Economic Survey has been conducted for more than 30 years, polling more than 1,000 economic experts at national and transnational organisations in over 100 countries. The Survey assesses worldwide economic trends and has excelled at revealing economic changes earlier than using traditional business-based statistics.
Global players like Volkswagen, Siemens and many others not only closely co-operate with WES, but use the results for their forecasting.
WES results are published in a quarterly journal and are regularly reported in the international press.
To gain an idea of what information the polled experts contribute, check out a sample WES questionnaire.
To become a member of the WES Expert Group, fill out the form on the second page of this membership application.
9th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations
The ninth annual conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations will be held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on January 7-9, 2016.
The conference brings together economists and political scientists to address political economy issues related to international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and European Union, and also other international organizations that have as yet received less attention in the academic literature.
For further information on the conference and the Call for Papers please click here.
You may submit both empirical and theoretical papers via the online submission form here.
The deadline for submission is September 30, 2015.
Travel Funding for Scholars from Developing Regions to IIPF Congress in Dublin
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is offering the potential for travel cost support to the IIPF Annual Congress (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, from 20 to 23 August 2015) for researchers from Africa and other developing regions who have submitted a paper to the congress and plan to present it (upon acceptance) at the congress.
Like in previous years, GIZ will offer an award for outstanding research by a presenter from Africa or other developing regions or for outstanding research on these regions. The GIZ Public Policy Award aims to recognize and support research discussing issues of relevance for developing countries.
Further details can be found in the application form.
In addition, this year the GIZ will sponsor a Master Class for early-stage researchers from Africa and other developing regions aimed at giving participants a chance to present their papers and receive feedback on content and methodology from IIPF scholars at the forefront of the field. Submissions in all fields of public finance will be considered. The deadline for submission to this Master Class is 15 April 2015. The class will take place the morning of Thursday August 20 and finish just before the start of the congress.
For details on the GIZ Master Class and on the application process, read the Call for applications.
Summer School 2015
Empirical Analysis of Markets with Asymmetric Information
The Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems and the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, announce a joint Summer School for postgraduate students, postdocs and junior faculty.
The Summer School will be held by Professor Liran Einav, Stanford University.
The school is targeted to Ph.D. students and young post-docs as well as assistant professors. Its major purpose is to provide a coherent view of up to date approaches to the theory-based empirical analysis of markets with asymmetric information.
Students applying for admission should have command of graduate level microeconomic theory and econometrics, and ideally have taken a course or experience in empirical industrial organization.
Deadline for applications is 15 June 2015
For further information download the full announcemnet or visit the website.
SIRE Energy Economics Workshop
The Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF) at University of Aberdeen will host a SIRE energy economics workshop on Friday, 29 May.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together Scottish and international researchers to discuss work in this growing field. Confirmed keynote speakers include Mine Yucel from Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas who will present "Fuel Subsidies, the Oil Market, and the World Economy."
Invited are presentations on topics broadly related to crude oil and natural gas markets, for example (but not limited to): energy price behavior, crude oil/natural gas spot and futures markets, exploration/investment and production, fuel taxation and/or subsidy, oil/gas shocks and macroeconomy, etc. Abstracts from PhD students are also welcome.
Submissions deadline is Friday, 17 April.
Please send one-page (at most) abstract as your submission to Xin Jin.
PhD Scholarship in Scotland
The Scottish Government and ESRC are co-funding a PhD Scholarship with Prof J. Malley and Dr K. Angelopoulos for the project "Growth and Inequality: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Scotland and the U.K." The aim of this project is to analyse the role of fiscal policy in affecting income inequality and the macro-economy when the socio-political structure also matters for economic decision-making. The quantitative analysis will concentrate on the Scottish and U.K. economies.
Info on the application procedure for both the studentship and the PhD place at the University of Glasgow can be found here.