Welcome New Members March 2019

We would like to welcome the following new member to the InsTED Network Prof Julian Jamison (University of Exeter Business School)  His research focuses on the interaction between individual preferences, decisions, and well-being on the one hand, and institutional policies on the other.  Much of it has been carried out in more than a dozen […]

ETSG2019 Bern: September 12-14

The twenty-first ETSG Conference will be hosted by the University of Bern, World Trade Institute in Bern (Switzerland) on 12-14 September 2019. The deadline to submit an abstract for possible presentation is FRIDAY MAY 3, 2019. Please visit the conference webpage (http://www.etsg.org/conferences/) for more details and submit your abstract on-line at http://www.etsg.org/abstract-for-etsg-conference.html

Call for Papers — Agricultural trade

IATRC and the European Commission in Seville, Spain are co-organizing a Summer Symposium June 23-25, 2019 on : “Trading for good – Agricultural trade in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation: synergies, obstacles and possible solutions”. The conference will be held at the Hotel Melia Sevilla. The meeting registration fee will be $375.  Details on symposium registration and hotel […]

Open Research Area (ORA) for the Social Sciences: Pre-Announcement of the Sixth Joint Call

The partners for the Open Research Area (ORA) are pleased to announce their sixth joint call for proposals due to open Spring 2019. This notice is being issued now to allow interested researchers to begin discussions with potential research partners in advance of the formal call for proposals. Scope of the Call: Four funding organisations […]

UKRI GCRF Collective Programme: Multi-hazards & Systemic Risks – Announcement of Opportunity

Closing date for outline bid proposals: 16:00 BST on 15 May 2019 Closing date for invited full bid: early September 2019 NERC, on behalf of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), invite outline bid proposals for international, interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects under the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Multi-hazards & Systemic Risks research call. This call […]

Financial Constraints, Institutions and Foreign Ownership

Ron Alquist, (AQR Capital Management), Nicolas Berman (Aix-Marseille University), Rahul Muhkerjee (Graduate Institute, Geneva), and Linda L. Tesar (University of Michigan) Cross border mergers and acquisitions (CBMA) as a form of foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs) have grown rapidly in the last two decades. For emerging market economies (EMEs) in particular, the […]

Workshop on Development Economics: Organisations, Institutions and the Mind

24-25 June 2019, University of Kent The School of Economics at the University of Kent is hosting a workshop, sponsored by the Royal Economic Society, that will bring together internationally leading and junior academics from the fields of Political Economy, Organisational Economics and Development Economics working on questions relating to identity, norms, motivation, belief formation […]

Call for Papers ITSG (Italian Trade Study Group) – Milano 2019

The next meeting of the “ITSG – Italian Trade Study Group” will be organised by Department of Management Engineering, Economics and Industrial Production Politecnico di Milano and Fondazione Manlio Masi on May 16-17 2019. The Scientific Committee of this meeting includes: Davide Castellani (University of Reading), Luca De Benedictis (Università di Macerata), Stefano Elia (Politecnico di Milano), […]