CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2012

The CESifo Venice Summer Institute, held every year in July, focuses on themes of current interest in European and global economic policy. The Institute brings together international economists working on economic policy topics for workshops, panel meetings and discussion. The conference venue is Venice International University on San Servolo, a tiny island across the water from San Marco in the bay of Venice.

How to get to Venice International University (the conference venue)


CESifo's thirteenth Venice Summer Institute will be held from 16 to 21 July 2012, with five workshops dealing with the following topics:

 

  • Cross Border Mobility of Students and Researchers: Financing and Implications for Economic Efficiency and Growth

    Organisers: Marcel Gérard and Silke Uebelmesser
    Keynote Speakers: Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics, David E. Wildasin, University of Kentucky
    Date: 16 - 17 July
    See call for papers

  • Portability of Social Benefits: The Economics of a Critical Topic in Globalisation

    Organisers: Robert Holzmann and Martin Werding
    Keynote Speakers: Alain Jousten, University of Liège
    Salvador Valdés-Prieto, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Republic of Chile
    Date: 16 - 17 July
    See call for papers

  • The Economics of Long-Term Care

    Organisers: Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau
    Keynote Speakers: Luigi Siciliani, University of York
    Edward Norton, University of Michigan
    Date: 18 - 19 July
    See call for papers

  • The Theory and Empirics of the Green Paradox

    Organisers: Karen Pittel, Rick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen
    Keynote Speakers: Michael Hoel, University of Oslo
    Hans-Werner Sinn, Ifo Institute and University of Munich
    Ngo Van Long , Ifo Institute and McGill University
    Date: 20 - 21 July
    See call for papers

  • Taxation of the Financial Sector

    Organisers: Ruud de Mooij and Gaetan Nicodeme
    Keynote Speakers: Michael Devereux, University of Oxford, Colin Mayer, University of Oxford, John Vickers, University of Oxford
    Date: 20 - 21 July
    See call for papers