This is the eighteenth conference in what is now the largest annual conference on international trade in the world. ETSG conferences are open to any researcher with an interest in international trade issues. Everyone can submit a paper for presentation.

The deadline to submit an abstract for possible presentation at the next ETSG Conference is FRIDAY APRIL 29, 2016.

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Time: Jun 24, 2016 9 AM – Jun 25, 2016 5 PM

Address: CESifo Conference Centre, Poschingerstrasse 5, 81679 Munich

The Ifo Center of Excellence for Migration and Integration Research (CEMIR) is organising a junior economist workshop on migration research to be held on 24 & 25 June 2016 at the Ifo Institute in Munich, Germany.
The keynote lecture will be given by Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Universidad CArlos III de Madrid.

Interested Ph.D. students, post docs and assistant professors in economics with a firm interest in the field of migration are invited to submit a research paper they would like to present (plus a CV) to nikolka@ifo.de by 16 April 2016. Decisions on acceptance are made by 6 May. The chair of the programme committee is Panu Poutvaara. There are no participation fees and travel expenses (economy) are covered.

For further information on this workshop, please contact Till Nikolka (nikolka@ifo.de).

Scientific organiser(s): Professor Panu Poutvaara, Till Nikolka

Workshop Website

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 is defined as “State, Economic Policy, Taxation, & Development”.  However, ICOPEC 2016 will attempt to explain and account for all political economy’s subtopics and different aspects associated with political economy.

7. ICOPEC 2016 will be held in Istanbul on June 28-30, 2016.

It will be held at Långholmen, Stockholm (an old Swedish prison but now a modern-day conference center) from September 30 to October 1, 2016.

We aim to bring together researchers from both sides of the Atlantic to present and discuss their work, allowing for an in-depth interaction between those working on the empirical and theoretical analysis of crime and illegal behaviour.

The workshop will consist of two keynote lectures – to be given by Steven Raphael (UC Berkeley) and Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego) – and 10 to 12 contributed papers. This year there will be a special session on Labour Economics and Crime. We encourage submissions focusing on the impact that criminal behaviour and involvement with the criminal justice system may have on labour market inputs and outcomes. Topics may include (but are not limited to): education, skills, discrimination, labour supply and demand, labour mobility (including migration), (un)employment, wages, welfare, workfare, and active labour market policies.

Other suggested topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Social prevention of crime and violence
• Evaluation of police crime reduction strategies
• Reinsertion and rehabilitation interventions
• Guns (and related policies) and crime
• Social interactions, networks, and crime
• Biases in the criminal justice system
• Economic crises, poverty, inequality and crime

The workshop is organized by the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg and Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. We invite researchers to submit a paper (in PDF) by sending an e-mail to Randi Hjalmarsson (). The submission deadline is May 1st, 2016.

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by June 17th 2016. We will provide accommodation and reimburse economy travel costs for paper presenters.

The 2016 Organizing committee is: Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg); Matthew Lindquist (Stockholm University); Olivier Marie (University of Maastricht); Emily Owens (University of Pennsylvania); Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University).

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 health. The workshop also aims to foster new connections among scholars with common interests in these areas. The workshop will consist in a small number of hour-long research presentations. We will allocate a discussant to each paper.

Keynote lectures will be given by Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) and Alan Winters (University of Sussex).

There are no fees. Participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the meeting, please send a draft of your paper to  by March 12, 2016. Decisions will be made by March 26, 2016. The detailed programme will be announced byApril 10, 2016.

InsTED member, Simone Moriconi, is organizing a session at the 3^rd International ESS Conference in Lausanne (CH), 13-15 July, 2016. Paper submissions are welcome.  Here is the session proposal:

Abstract submissions are welcome on “Social Preferences, Institutions and Performance in the Labour Market” within the theme “labour market, work and family“ at the 3^rd International ESS Conference in Lausanne (CH), 13-15 July, 2016.

An extensive economics literature associates the bad functioning of the labor market to the persistence of inefficient institutions (unemployment insurance, labor taxation, unionization) and adverse economic shocks. A related strand points out that aggregate employment outcomes may reflect underlying individual preferences. In-work and job search effort depend on the opportunity cost of enjoying leisure in terms of foregone income. This cost is subjective and can be high e.g. in the presence of a social norm of unemployment. Individual perceptions regarding job insecurity are important predictors of own employment probabilities. Also, individuals’ attitudes towards inequality and fairness as opposed to preferences for hard work, personal responsibility and merit may shape policies, thus the characteristics of a country’s institutions. Finally, individual risk attitudes shape preferences too, and the view regarding government’s commitment towards disadvantaged worker categories.

Notwithstanding their importance, it is widely acknowledged that individual preferences are made of two components. The first component is idiosyncratic, affected by the social and economic context where an individual lives and responsive to external shocks. The second component, is structural, deeply rooted in the past, and may be inherited from past generations through “culture”, thus exogenous to other individual decisions e.g. labour supply.

Papers in this session will have to tackle the issues sketched above, and will try to answer the following questions. What is the role of individual preferences for important decisions in the labour market (e.g. labour supply, job-search, job mobility etc.)? What is the relationship between preferences and institutions? Does the evolution of preferences shape individual views regarding government intervention in the institutional setting? How does the idiosyncratic component of preferences matter as compared with deep and culturally-transmitted preferences in determining institutional and economic outcomes in the labour market?

On line submission tool available here

Closing date for abstracts submissions: 17th January, 2016.

Notification of acceptance: early March.