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CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENTS
Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar TAPES 2014, "Personal Income Taxation and Household Behavior"
CESifo Fellows Christian Keuschnigg of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Roger Gordon of the University of California, San Diego and NBER, will organise the next Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar-TAPES 2014, which will be held on June 16 - 18, 2014 in Vienna.
The deadline for submission is 1 October 2013.
The Causes and Consequences of Happiness
This workshop, organised within the framework of the EHERO Congress ‘Advances in Happiness Economics’ by CESifo Fellow Robert Dur, will be held in Rotterdam on 28 & 29 October 2013. The deadline for submission is 15 September 2013.
2013 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries
The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (X-lab) and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley, and The Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics, will hold this symposium from December 5-6 at the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway.
16th Annual Research Conference "The Impact of Credit on the Dynamics of SMEs"
The Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) will hold this conference, organised by CESifo Fellow Jakob de Haan and colleagues, in Amsterdam on 17-18 October 2013.
Cebid Conference on "Taxation, Social Norms and Compliance"
CESifo Fellow Matthias Wrede is organising this conference, which will be held on 6 – 8 March, 2014 in Nuremberg.
The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2013.
Call for Papers for Journal The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review
CESifo Fellow Michael Hoy is calling for submissions on “New developments in the economics of insurance markets with adverse selection” for the The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. All papers will be subject to referee review.
The deadline for submission is 25 September 2013.
OTHER EVENTS
75th Anniversary of KOF-ETH
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, one of Switzerland’s leading economic think-tanks, is turning 75. Headed by CESifo Fellow Jan-Egbert Sturm, KOF is dedicated to business cycle research and aims to act as a mediator between politics, business and society on the one side, and the research community on the other. It also provides a leading platform for economists, especially within Switzerland, and runs Ökonommemstimme, the German-language counterpart to VoxEU.
The anniversary celebration will take place on Monday, September 23, 2013, from 17.15 to 19.00 hrs. at the KOF premises in Zurich. Among the confirmed speakers are Josef Ackermann, former head of Deutsche Bank and of Zurich Insurance Group, and Thomas J. Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank SNB.
Participation is free of charge.
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NEW BOOKS BY NETWORK MEMBERS
"Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia"
CESifo Fellow Andrew Leigh asked himself whether Australia is fair enough, and why does inequality matter anyway? The result of his quest for answers was Battlers and Billionaires, where Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in his country. This is economics writing at its best.
From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s.
Leigh shows that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias, occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born into poverty to enter the middle class.
Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have – and keep – a fair go.
"Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada: An Empirical Study"
CESifo Fellow Stanley Winer and his colleagues Kathleen M. Day won the Purvis Memorial Prize for 2013 (and $10,000) from the Canadian Economics Society for this book. The prize is for the best work on Canadian public policy published in 2012.
Robin Boadway, of Queen's University and also a CESifo Fellow, wrote this about the book: "The determinants and consequences of interregional migration are of profound policy importance in a large decentralized federation like Canada. Migration influences government policy and may severely constrain it. Understanding the magnitude of migration responses to public policy is a prerequisite for good policy choices. In this book, two of the literature's most prominent contributors, Kathleen Day and Stanley Winer, undertake a formidable and thorough study of the economic and policy determinants of interregional migration in Canada. The results, which are based on state-of-the-art structural estimation of migration as a decision with uncertain consequences using income tax based micro-data, are both convincing and, to some eyes, surprising. While some policies, such as unemployment insurance, affect migration in predictable ways, the study reveals that economic opportunities and extraordinary events play a much more important role than regionally differentiated economic policies. The authors present a careful overview of the relevance of their findings for public policy. This book is destined to become a classic reference for years to come, and an important benchmark for the study of regional and federal policies in Canada."
"The Economics of Women, Men, and Work"
CESifo Fellow Francine Blau and her colleagues Marianne A. Ferber and Anne E. Winkler have released this book that is ideally suited for Departments of Women's Studies on The Economics of Women, Women and Work, or the Economics of Gender.
It is the most current and comprehensive source available for research, data, and analysis on women, gender, and economics.
Blau, Ferber, and Winkler are widely known for their research and contributions on the study of the economics of gender. As active researchers and leading scholars on the subject, the authors are in tune with the most current and relevant research that’s included in Economics of Women, Men, and Work.
Intereconomics, Vol 48, No. 4, July/August 2013: "Youth Unemployment"
CESifo Fellow Juan José Dolado and his colleagues Sue Maguire, Bart Cockx, Florentino Felgueroso, Marcel Jansen, Izabela Styczyńska, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinnes, Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte, and Ulf Rinne, have just released the latest issue of Intereconomics (the economic policy journal of the Centre for European Policy Studies), devoted to the issue of your unemployment.
Youth unemployment has been on the rise since the beginning of the crisis in 2008. Even more troublesome is the dramatic rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, which has led to widespread concerns about the impact on social cohesion and fears of a “lost generation”. Given the extreme differences in youth unemployment levels among member states, it is clear that no single labour market policy will be appropriate throughout the EU. There may, however, be opportunities for mutual learning on how to combat youth unemployment. This Forum explores youth unemployment in the EU via case studies of England, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Ireland. It also examines Germany’s dual vocational training system as one potential solution.
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Vito Tanzi has published two books recently, "Italica: Costi e Conseguenze dell'Unificazione d'Italia", with Grantorinolibri in 2012, and "Dollars, Euros, and Debt: How We Got into the Fiscal Crisis, and How We Get Out of It", with Palgravemacmillan, London, in 2013.
Klaus Wälde has published the Edition 1.2 of "Applied Intertemporal Optimization", ideal for teaching in third year Bachelor classes and in Master and PhD classes.
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Head of Department of Economics and Finance, Academic Research and Teaching Section of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
The Institute for Advanced Studies is an institution for research and postgraduate training under private law. The Academic Research and Teaching section of the Department of Economics and Finance is one of four IAS departments. The essential activities of this group include scientific research at the highest academic level and teaching activities in the two-year Master of Science at the IAS and in combined PhD Programmes in collaboration with the Vienna Graduate School of Economics and the Vienna Graduate School of Finance.
The deadline for applications is 15 October 2013.
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