Institutions Trade & Economic Development
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting applications that address specific challenges defined in the grant programs below. For details and application instructions, please visit the new Grand Challenges website. Please note that descriptions of the challenges will soon be available on the website in Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish. 1) Grand Challenges Explorations […]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL The Department of Economics invites applications for a full-time tenure/tenure track position in the field of Macroeconomics and International Economics. The Department offers a Ph.D. degree, a professional Master’s degree (MSPE), and an undergraduate degree (BA). For information about the Department, see www.economics.illinois.edu. Successful candidates are expected to teach […]
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes An International Conference on International Trade, 13-16 June 2016, Athens, Greece. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 16 November 2015, by email (atiner@atiner.com), addressed to Mr. Athanasios Mihalakas, Academic Member, ATINER & Assistant Professor, The State University of New York, at […]
The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest and leading source of financing for regional development in Latin America and the Caribbean, is seeking highly qualified Economists to work in the Integration and Trade Sector. Candidates must have proven research experience in specialized trade and economic integration issues, in particular in areas such as trade-related labor market […]
University of Sussex, 21 to 23 March 2016 Submissions are invited for the 2016 Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, taking place from Monday 21 March to Wednesday 23 March 2016 at the University of Sussex, Brighton. Submissions of papers and special sessions are invited from academic, government and business economists in any field of economics and econometrics. […]
Since 1950 the global Gini coefficient for between-country income inequality has stood at about 55, reflecting a twenty five-fold difference in wealth between the richest and poorest countries. A well-known stylized fact underpinning this feature of the world economy is that the real investment rate of wealthy countries such as Norway and the United States […]
The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page. Dreher, Axel, Andreas Fuchs, Roland Hodler, Bradley C. Parks, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney (2015) “Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance” Hessami, Zohal, Claudio Thum and Silke Uebelmesser (2012) “A Political Economy Explanation for […]
December 3-4, 2015 – WIFO (Austrian Institute of Economic Research) Venue: WIFO (Austrian Institute of Economic Research), Arsenal, Object 20, 1030 Vienna Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Franz Hubert (Humboldt-Unviversity Berlin) The Research Centre International Economics – FIW announces its 8th Research Conference that is jointly organized with the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg, […]
Atypical employment has been of increasing importance in most developed countries. It comprises employment types such as fixed-term contracts, part-time jobs and marginal employment, as well as contract work and temporary agency work, which play a decisive role in the institutional setting of modern labour markets. It has been argued that atypical employment can be […]
By Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University Bloomington) What type of goods does the US export to Canada? What type of goods does it export to New Zealand? Guided by a standard gravity model we know very well that the US exports more (in value terms) to Canada than New Zealand. However, gravity models tell us little […]