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Call for Papers – „Finance and Development“ Workshop

Financial systems are developing rapidly around the global South. These developments increase the need for research into their effects, especially regarding issues of financial inclusion and individual as well as institutional responses.

To this end Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute and the Department of Economics will host the sixth annual workshop “Finance and Development” in Heidelberg, Germany, on May 16 in the afternoon and May 17, 2024.

Deadline for submitting full papers and presenter nominations is February 2, 2024, with selection decisions to follow by March 8.

Further information can be found here.

Call for Papers – Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)

The Research Training Group Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) at the University of Passau is organizing the first DPE Forum on „Bytes and Behemoths: Understanding Power in Digital Platform Ecosystems,“ to be held on June 4-5, 2024. The forum will feature keynote speakers Professor Marshall van Alstyne (Boston University) and Professor Dr. Martin Selmayr (European Commission in Austria). Abstract submissions are welcomed until January 31, 2024.

The full Call for Papers can be found here.

Call for Papers – Doctoral Workshop

The Standing Field Committee of Development Economics of the German Economic Association invites submissions for this year’s doctoral workshop. It will be organized by Isabel Günther and the ETH Zürich Development Economics Group and takes place on September 28 and 29 2023 at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.

Please find further information and the full CfP here.

Doctoral Workshop 2022

The Doctoral Workshop 2022 of the Research Group on Development Economics of the German Economic Association was organized by Professor Tilman Brück (IGZ, HU Berlin & ISDC) and took place on September 22nd and 23rd, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. The workshop’s aim was to enable doctoral students to improve their ongoing research, advise them on the preparation of a refereed journal article, practice academic discussions and build informal networks.

Call for Papers: Research Conference on „Sustainability in Global Value Chains“

The Research Conference on „Sustainability in Global Value Chains“, jointly organized by The Research Network Sustainable Global Supply Chains and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), will take place on 7 December 2021 and is part of the Forum on Globalization and Industrialization (FGI 2021) held on 6 December 2021. It aims to bring together empirical research on sustainability topics in global value chains.

The organizers welcome submissions of full-length papers using micro and macro analyses, as well as quantitative and qualitative approaches. Interested applicants can submit the extended abstract by 31 May 2021 and the paper by 30 July 2021.

Further details on the conference as well as on the submission of papers can be found here.

Spring/Summer Program for the 3D Seminar Series – Digital Development Dialogue

The new program for the 3D Seminar Series for the summer term 2021 is now available. The seminar is organized by Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan (University of Göttingen) and aims at bringing together two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – to touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide.

For further information, please click here .

Call for Papers: 14th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organization (PEIO)

The 14th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organization (PEIO) is hosted by Oxford University on January 13-15, 2022, bringing together economists and political scientists to address political economy issues related to international organizations.

The organizers are inviting submissions of both empirical and theoretical papers by September 30, 2021; submissions on topics more broadly related to international organization (e.g., foreign aid or international law) will also be considered.

Further details can be found here and on the conference website.

Call for Papers: 17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network on “Conflict, Migration, and Displacement“

The 17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) on “Conflict, Migration, and Displacement” will be held online on October 11-12, 2021. The event is hosted by the University of Goettingen with Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) as the keynote speaker and an open plenary on “Migration and Security Policy”, which is jointly organized by the HiCN, the Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig), and the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

The organizers are inviting submissions of (preferably) full papers or extended abstracts by May 31, 2021 (23:59 CET).

For further information on the event and the Call for Papers, please click here.

PEGNet Conference on “Resilient Low-Carbon Economies: Risks and Policies”

The online conference on March 22nd & March 23rd 2021 is jointly organized by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network (PEGNet) and will consist of several sessions on carbon pricing, the possibilities of a just transition and the impacts of climate change on pro-poor growth, health and migration in low-income countries.

For further details and the program, please click here.

Autumn/Winter Program for the 3D Seminar Series – Digital Development Dialogue

The new autumn/winter program for the 3D Seminar Series is now available. The seminar is organized by Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan (University of Göttingen) and aims to bring together two speakers – one researcher and one practitioner – to touch upon key topics in development policy with the goal of stimulating a meaningful dialogue across the theory & practice divide.

Click here for further information.

3D Seminar – Digital Development Dialogue on Covid-19

Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan from the University of Goettingen have released a new format for policy and practice exchange – the Digital Development Dialogue (3D). The aim of this 3D seminar series is to bring together two speakers – one researcher and one policymaker/practitioner – to discuss topics related to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Click here for further details and subscription.

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