The Economics of Networks Research Unit at Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the workshop on “Networks, Complexity, and Economic Development”.

Networks are one of the central challenges of today’s science and the analysis of large-scale social networks integrates scholars from a wide variety of sciences in understanding complex social and economic phenomena. The workshop aims to establish a platform for interdisciplinary discussions focusing on economic development.

Invited talks

Cesar A. Hidalgo, MIT

“Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies”

“The shapes of the city: new computational methods to understand urban perception, gentrification, and economic agglomerations at the neighborhood scale” (with Edward Glaeser)

 Ádám Szeidl, CEU and CEPR

“Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance” (with Jing Cai)

Balázs Vedres, CEU

“Fragility in European economic integration: Lessons from the network of inter-industries flow data”

Call

We invite PhD students, and early career researchers from economics, sociology, geography, computational social science, and network science to present a paper and discuss future research. Interested fellows from other fields might submit an abstract as well. Papers that address the following topics are particularly (but not exclusively) welcome:

• Economics of social networks
• Dynamics of large scale economic networks
• Innovation and spreading
• Human mobility and networks
• Networks of international trade
• Proximity and economic development
• Social networks and performance

The workshop is open to the public; however, due to place limitations, registration is required.

Dates

• Abstract submission: 19 October 2015
• Notification of acceptance: 26 October 2015
• Registration: 16 November 2015
• Workshop: 30 November – 1 December 2015

Workshop website

The 3rd InsTED workshop will take place at Indiana University, May 13th-15th, 2016.  Sponsorship by the Center for Applied Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at Indiana University is gratefully acknowledged.

Keynote speakers:

Kishore Gawande (McCombs School of Business, UT Austin)

 Stephen Yeaple (Penn State)

Organizers: Mostafa Beshkar (Indiana), Ben Zissimos (Exeter) and Isleide Zissimos (Vanderbilt)

The workshop will focus on advances at the intersection of institutions, trade and economic development.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (last update: May 10^th)

Submissions are now closed.

Registration fee: US$ 160.00.  The deadline for registration is April 12th 2016.  Click here to register

We have a block of rooms reserved at the Grant Street Inn:  https://www.grantstinn.com/ The rooms are listed under “InsTED Conference”.  The deadline for booking is also April 12th 2016.

There are two shuttle services that run to the Indianapolis International Airport. They don’t drop off directly at the hotel but they do drop off at locations within a couple of blocks. The two services are:

https://goexpresstravel.com/

http://www.soashuttle.com/

There are also limo services to the airport:

http://www.classictouchlimo.com/

https://goexpresstravel.com/car_service

You can also rent a car at the airport.

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 (), addressed to Mr. Athanasios Mihalakas, Academic Member, ATINER & Assistant Professor, The State University of New York, at Brockport, USA.

Please include with this order: Title of Paper, First Name, Family name of all co-authors, Current Position of all co-authors, Institutional Affiliation (University/Organization) of all co-authors, Country of all co-authors, an email address of all co-authors and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission.

Should you wish to participate in the Conference as a chair of a session, evaluate papers which are to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER & Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK ().

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 beneficial in creating more flexibility for firms and in helping to overcome crises without massive employment losses. Little is known, however, about the consequences of atypical employment on the individual level. On the one hand, concerns have recently been growing that atypical employment positions are only second-best options for workers, compared to regular employment. Atypical positions are associated with detrimental effects on wage growth, on employment prospects and on individual well-being in terms of satisfaction and health. On the other hand, the provision of atypical employment positions might be a response to the demand for flexible work arrangements of specific types of workers in dynamic labour markets. Empirical and theoretical work on the development and consequences of atypical employment can therefore provide valuable evidence for policy-makers regarding the regulation of labour market institutions.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together international researchers in order to present and discuss recent empirical and theoretical contributions regarding the development and consequences of atypical employment.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Trends in atypical employment across different types of worker and countries
• Quality of atypical employment
• Dynamic employment and wage effects
• State dependence in the low-wage sector related to atypical employment
• Self-employment as an atypical employment type
• Life-cycle effects of atypical employment
• Individual well-being and atypical employment
• Atypical employment induced by new technologies
• Labour supply and hours constraints
• Atypical employment in the context of household and fertility decisions
• Investigation of the role of firms using linked employer-employee data
• Effects of policy reforms on the consequences of atypical employment
• Atypical employment as a stepping stone to regular employment
• Institutional relationship between unions, minimum wages and atypical employment
• Relationship between unemployment and atypical employment in a job search context

The deadline for submission of full papers or extended abstracts is September 27 2015.

Workshop dates: December 2-3 2015

Location of the workshop: ZEW, L 7,1 D-68161 Mannheim

Workshop Website

You are invited to an AIB (Academy of International Business) mini-conference at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy on October 30th and 31st, 2015.

The theme is “Breaking up the global value chain: Possibilities and consequences” with Keynote speeches by Juan Alcacer (Harvard Business School) and John Cantwell (Rutgers Business School).

The conference will cover issues like:

• What are the macro-economic and institutional conditions explaining the international fragmentation and geographical dispersion of the value chains?
• Under what conditions is it beneficial to keep the different business activities in the same location rather than splitting and decentralize them across companies and countries’ boundaries? What are the organizational challenges?
• What are the costs of offshoring? Who benefits from offshoring? Is it society at large, customers, employees? What are spill-over effects of offshoring?
• What are the challenges for policy makers? What can be done in order to promote the manufacturing activities in advanced countries?

Submission guidelines: Participants who wish to present their research at the conference are invited to submit an extended abstract not exceeding 1,000 words through the conference website no later than September 1st 2015.

For more information on the conference website: http://valuechain.unibocconi.eu – or approach us on the email:

We look forward to you joining us in Milan.
Arnaldo Camuffo, Torben Pedersen – Bocconi University
Stefano Elia, Lucia Piscitello –   Politecnico di Milano

The University of Bari “Aldo Moro” and the NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway) are jointly organizing the 6th edition of the conference on the “Economics of Global Interactions”. UNIDO, United Nation Industrial Development Organization, is partner of the conference.

The event will provide scholars with the opportunity to discuss their recent contributions in the following areas:
–        Theoretical and empirical aspects of International Trade;
–        Determinants and effects of International Migration and FDI;
–        Institutions and Economic Development;
–        Globalization, sustainability and the environment;
–        Industrialization in developing countries
 
Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. A discussant will be assigned to each paper presented at the conference.
 
The guest lectures will be delivered by Prof. Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics, France) and Prof. Ragnar Torvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway).
 
Submission guidelines and timetable
Submissions of papers or extended abstracts are expected by June 7th, 2015, to the following address: 
 
Decisions will be communicated by June 30th, 2015. The full paper is expected by the end of July.
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http://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/dse/e.g.i/4th-international-conference