The ongoing selection process for the new Director General of the WTO has prompted renewed focus on reforming that institution and also provides an opportunity to rethink the reform of global institutions more broadly.… read more ...
By Simone Moriconi (IESEG School of Management and LEM), Giovanni Peri (University of California Davis), and Riccardo Turati (Université Catholique de Louvain)
The idea that political support for redistribution and public good provision is lower in societies with high exposure to immigration and diversity is widely acknowledged.… read more ...
Hi everyone,
We hope you are safe and well. We’re writing to let you know that after serious consideration with the local organisers at the University of Lancaster, we have reached the difficult decision to cancel the 7th InsTED -Lancaster 2020.… read more ...
In April 2020 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is planning to announce an open competition for Research Centres. The competition will be open to applications of excellent quality in any area of social science within the ESRC remit.
… read more ...The next meeting of the “ITSG – Italian Trade Study Group” will be organised by the Department of Economics and Social Sciences of the Università Politecnica delle Marche and Fondazione Manlio Masi on June 29-30, 2020.… read more ...
The Department of Economics invites applications to fill a full-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting September 1, 2020. Candidates for this position should have research and teaching interests related to Environment, Energy or Development Economics and will be expected to teach and advise doctoral students in the economics and public policy Ph.D.… read more ...
The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), organized by the World Bank’s Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, is one of the world’s best-known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on development.… read more ...
By Tibor Besedeš (Georgia Institute of Technology), Erik P. Johnson (Carthage College), and Xinping Tian (Hunan University)
Multilateral environmental agreements come in many flavors. Between 1950 and 2012 over 1100 such agreements have been negotiated between countries.… read more ...
We would like to welcome the following new member to the InsTED Network
Prof Robin Burgess (London School or Economics). His areas of research interest include development economics, public economics, political economy, labor economics and environmental economics.… read more ...
Call for Papers
“The Dynamics of Trade”
Nottingham, United Kingdom
8-9 June 2020
The Nottingham Centre for Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP) are pleased to announce that their annual summer trade workshop will take place at University of Nottingham 8-9 June 2020.… read more ...