From 15/Oct/2010 to 16/Oct/2010This will be the second CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics in Munich for all members of the CESifo Research Network. The purpose of the conference is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic in the field of Energy and Climate Economics. The keynote speaker will be Larry Karp, University of California, Berkeley. The deadline for submission of complete papers, or 2-3 page abstract, is August 6, 2010. Scientific organiser(s): Michael Hoel See call for papers Contact for queries: office@cesifo.de
From 29/Oct/2010 to 30/Oct/2010On October 29-30, 2010, the Business Cycle Analysis and Survey Department of Ifo in association with Rüdiger Bachman (Michigan University) will organize a conference in Munich on “Macroeconomics and Survey Data”. The conference is intended to discuss ongoing research on survey data and its role and usage in macroeconomics. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like methodology of business surveys, uncertainty modelling, survey data and the business cycle, ransmission of cyclical fluctuations, forecasting performance of survey data in business-cycle research, usage of micro-data in macroeconomics. The keynote lectures will be given by Robert E. Hall from Stanford University and Fernando Alvarez from University of Chicago. The deadline for submission of papers or abstracts is 30 June 2010. The paper or a 2-3 page abstract (pdf-file) should be sent via e-mail to: wohlrabe@ifo.de. E-mails should have as a subject line “Submission”, and include the title, a short abstract, and the contact information of the submitter in the main body of the text. Scientific organiser(s): Klaus Wohlrabe See call for papers See Conference Programme Contact for queries: wohlrabe@ifo.de
From 05/Nov/2010 to 06/Nov/2010Corporations in all major economies are facing two quite distinct sets of regulations. On the one hand, governments design corporate governance rules that are intended to make management accountable and protect the interest of minority shareholders. On the other hand, corporations face severe documentation requirements to account for taxable profits to protect the interest of taxpayers. The conference will discuss the interplay of these two set of regulations and discuss complementarities and conflicts. Scientific organiser(s): Alfons Weichenrieder , Dhammika Dharmapala See call for papers Contact for queries: office@cesifo.de
From 09/Nov/2010 to 10/Nov/2010
The Louvain School of Management at the Catholic University of Mons and CESifo will organize in Mons, Belgium, a joint workshop on the financing of the Cross Border Mobility of Higher Education Students and Researchers. Papers, theoretical, empirical and policy oriented, are actively solicited on issues like (the list below is not exhaustive),
Professor Nicholas Barr (London School of Economics) and Professor Bruce Chapman (Australian National University, Canberra) will deliver the keynote lectures. The workshop is organized on the occasion of the Belgian Presidency of the EU and within the framework of the Interuniversity Research Program IAP 6/09 of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Department “Higher Education and Research”, led by Professor Mathias Dewatripont (ULB).
From 19/Nov/2010 to 20/Nov/2010This two day workshop, held in Dresden on the 19 - 20 November 2010, will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give reserachers the opportunity to network. The keynote speakers are Benjamin Lockwood (University of Warwick) and Friedrich Schneider (Johannes Kepler University, Linz). Scientific organiser(s): Christian Lessmann , Gunther Markwardt See call for papers Contact for queries: office@cesifo.de
From 19/Nov/2010 to 20/Nov/2010Most western governments intervene heavily in the housing market. This is done, for instance, by regulating the supply of housing, by giving a preferential tax treatment to owner-occupied housing, and with means-tested social housing programs. The purpose of the forthcoming CESifo Economic Studies conference on “Housing Taxation and Regulation”, held on November 19-20, 2010 in Munich, is to stimulate research concerning these policies. We welcome both empirical and theoretical papers about housing markets that address policy relevant questions. Questions to be addressed include:
