2016 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa, July 14th and 15th, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal.

We are looking for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile money and financial innovation; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the quality of public services and political economy; or entrepreneurship and management […]

Institutions and Emigration from Developing Countries

One of the issues raised by the current refugee and migration crisis in Europe concerns the question of why people take the decision to emigrate.  An emerging literature focuses specifically on institutional factors.  One strand examines the informal institutions of migration networks.  It attempts to evaluate how the strength of a social network in the […]

New Working Papers February 2016

The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page. Cunha, Alexandre and Emanuel Ornelas (2015) “The Limits of Political Compromise: Debt Ceilings and Political Competition.” Dix-Carneiro, Rafael, Rodrigo R. Soares and Gabriel Ulyssea (2016) “Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization.” Monarch, Ryan and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (2016) “Learning […]

Arnoldshain Seminar XIV “Institutions, Trade, and Economic Policy”

October 3 – 6, 2016 Córdoba and La Cumbre OVERVIEW The 14th edition of this conference series, will be organized by the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and will bring together researchers interested in the following subjects: – International Migration and Local Development. – The Economic Influence of Digitalization. – Integration, Trade and Capital Flows. […]

International Conference of Political Economy 2016: Call for Papers

ICOPEC 2016 is organized by Batman University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Marmara University Faculty of Economics with the cooperation of University of Westminster (UK), Institute for Economic & Social Research of Piedmont (IRES, Italy), Ostrava Technical University (Czech Republic) and Pontifica Catholic University of Lima [Peru]. The main theme of 7th conference […]

Workshop: Trade and Health: Empirical approaches and policy implications

We are soliciting papers for the workshop “Trade and Health: Empirical approaches and policy implications“. The workshop is part of the “Trade and Health” project funded by the John Fell Fund. We invite submissions in any area of empirical health economics and trade, but preferences will be given to papers analyzing the relationship between trade and […]

7th Annual Conference of the Trade, Integration, and Growth Network (TIGN) Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 24-25, 2016

The 7th Annual Conference of the Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN) will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 24-25, 2016. This conference is sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and Sao Paulo School of Economics – FGV and […]