Founded in 1845, we've been inspiring students for 180 years. University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching.
The university opened its doors in 2021 under the Punjab State Private Universities Policy of 2010. Today, it has more than 500 bright and curious students on campus who will be the tech leaders of tomorrow. 40 eminent faculty who are subject matter experts and industry practitioners. A campus spread over 50-acre in Chandigarh tri-city, is 10 minute drive from the Chandigarh International Airport.
Université Catholique de Louvain (UC Louvain)
The University of Louvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-La-Neuve. The University of Louvain (Universitas Lovaniensis) was founded at the centre of the historic town of Leuven (or Louvain) in 1425, making it the first university in Belgium and the Low Countries.
Public Economics & Economic Policy (JEL H)
Economic Development, Innovation and Growth (JEL O)
Urban, Rural and Transportation Economics (JEL R)
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics (JEL E)
Econometrics, Statistics and Quantitative Methods (JEL C)
Agricultural and Environmental Economics (JEL Q)
The business world is changing fast—and we want to shape it with you. Our mission is to help you navigate your journey towards the next best you by diving into three key elements: your career, your impact and your purpose. Your education is not a one-size-fits-all journey; at the forefront of our programs are your individual goals and aspirations. We fit the program to you—not you to the program. We embrace your unique talent and potential, celebrating different ideas and backgrounds across our international network of future leaders. IE Business School is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, and most importantly, you.
KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 30,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 34 countries.
Prague University of Economics and Business
About the University The Prague University of Economics and Business (VŠE), founded in 1953, is the biggest public university in the field of economics and business in the Czech Republic. VŠE has six faculties offering applicants a broad spectrum of bachelor, master, PhD and MBA study programs. Five faculties are located in the center of Prague – the Faculty of Finance and Accounting, the Faculty of International Relations, the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics and the Faculty of Economics. The Faculty of Management is located in the town of Jindřichův Hradec. Studies at VŠE meet the requirements of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Currently, there are about 14,000 students at VŠE. VŠE offers bachelor’s degree study programs in Czech, English, and Russian; master’s degree study programs are offered in Czech and English. Since 2007, there has been a Center for Disabled Students at VŠE. International Accreditations The university is highly appraised both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The Faculty of Business Administration is EQUIS accredited, which ranks the faculty among the top 1% of business schools in the world. Two master’s degree programs „International Business – Central European Business Realities“ and „Mezinárodní obchod“ (taught at the Faculty of International Relations) were certified with EPAS accreditation by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development). The “Master in Official Statistics” program (taught at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics) received the accreditation EMOS (European Master in Official Statistics) by the ESSC (European Statistical System Committee) . International MBA program is accredited by the association FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation) and by CAMBAS (The Czech Association of MBA Schools), which is a member organization of EQUAL – European Quality Link by EFMD. The Faculty of Finance and Accounting received the accreditation from the professional body ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). In August, 2018, the Initial Accreditation Committee of AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accepted the Initial Self Evaluation Report, thus allowing VŠE to enter the core part of accreditation process. International Ranking VŠE is ranked by the Financial Times annually and has already been appraised for several years by the Eduniversal Ranking project as one of the best “business schools” in Central and Eastern Europe. International Relations and Corporate Partners VŠE is successful within international cooperation. The university currently cooperates with more than 250 partner universities worldwide. There are approximately 1 000 outgoing students annually with an even higher number of foreign students accepted from abroad. VŠE is a member of numerous international organizations and networks such as the international strategic alliance CEMS (Global Alliance in Management Education) and PIM (Partnership in International Management). VŠE is also a member of the PRME Initiative (Principles for Responsible Management Education). The PRME Initiative is the first organized relationship between the United Nations and management-related academic institutions, business schools, and universities. The university is closely linked to the business sector as well. VŠE graduates find employment easily in the labor market. They get important positions in both the private and public sectors such as banking, accounting and auditing, sales, marketing, business and trade, public administration, information technologies, etc. Česká spořitelna, a.s. (Erste Group) is a long-term general partner of VŠE. Study at VŠE Many significant Czech and foreign economists have obtained the university’s honoris causa title; these include, for instance, the Nobel Prize winners Prof. Robert A. Mundell, Prof. Milton Friedman, or Prof. Gary S. Becker. The classes taught at VŠE are guaranteed and provided by more than 600 qualified academics and business experts. Besides the specialized courses, VŠE stresses foreign language studies. VŠE students can take classes of English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese. VŠE provides its students with a high quality study environment and conditions. The university library contains more than 430 thousand books and 330 journals and provides access to numerous electronic databases with e-journals and periodicals on a broad range of topics. Students may use hundreds of computer stations on campus, a wireless network, or the modern Integrated Study Information System (InSIS). For students who do not come from Prague, there are almost 4,500 beds available at the university’s dormitory facilities. The university has its own sports facilities. Students may use the modern, multipurpose sports arena which was opened in 2009. The gym has a surface of 1,400 m2 and is sufficient for three volleyball or two basketball courts, handball, floor ball, indoor football, and other sports. There is an artificial climbing wall and a rehabilitation exercise room. At the dormitory facility area, there is an artificial turf football field. Summer and winter sports courses are organized too. VŠE supports many student clubs and activities. Examples of these activities include a choir, a chamber orchestra, a folklore group, a film club, a theatre group, and student journals. International student organizations are present and there is a wide-range of interest associations at VŠE too.
University of Freiburg, Chair of Statistics and Econometrics
Welcome to the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Freiburg. Head of the Chair: Prof. Dr. Roxana Halbleib Secretariat: Conny Hupfer
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) was founded in 1983 to enhance the quality of economic policy-making within Europe and beyond, by fostering high quality, policy-relevant economic research, and disseminating it widely to decision-makers in the public and private sectors. Drawing together the expertise of its Research Fellows and Affiliates, CEPR initiates, funds and coordinates research activities and communicates the results quickly and effectively to decision makers around the world. The Centre is an independent, non-profit organization and takes no institutional policy positions. CEPR is based on what was (in 1983) a new model of organization, a “thinknet”. It is a distributed network of economists, who are affiliated with but not employed by CEPR, and who collaborate through the Centre on a wide range of policy-related research projects and dissemination activities. CEPR was founded at a time when European economics had relatively few “centres of excellence” with international reach but many excellent researchers, widely dispersed, with few opportunities for interaction. One of CEPR’s main achievements has been to create a virtual “centre of excellence” for European economics through an active community of dispersed individual researchers, working together across international boundaries to produce high-quality research for use by the policy community and the private sector. CEPR’s “thinknet” structure also supports the Centre’s pluralist and non-partisan stance. The Centre actively encourages diversity of opinion and independent thought in its network, with the result that CEPR's output reflects state-of-the-art thinking from a range of perspectives. This helps enrich and enliven policy debates. Today, CEPR’s network of Research Fellows and Affiliates includes over 1,300 of the top economists conducting research on issues affecting the European economy. Researchers are based in their home institutions (universities, research institutes, central bank research departments, and international organisations), and collaborate through the Centre in the pursuit of policy-relevant economic research and dissemination activities. This differs from traditional thinktanks or research institutes, where there is a “in house” research staff. CEPR researchers are appointed by the Centre's Appointments Committee, chaired by the Centre's President. These researchers are organized in ten Programme Areas, each led by Programme Directors who provide intellectual leadership and quality control. The work of the Programme Directors is guided by the Centre's President, and three Vice Presidents. The Centre provides common services for its network of researchers and for the users of its researchers, and it obtains funding for the activities it develops. In particular, the Centre's staff, based in CEPR's London office undertake the following activities: Development of projects and obtaining funding for them Administration and execution of projects once funding has been obtained for them, and reporting to the donors on the activities undertaken and expenditures incurred. Dissemination of the results of the research to a wide audience in the private sector and the research and policy communities
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
As the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the Directorate-General Joint Research Centre's mission is to support EU policies through evidence-based scientific and technical advice. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy. The JRC is a Directorate-General of the European Commission under the responsibility of Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth & Sport. Its Board of Governors assists and advises the Director-General on matters relating to the role and the scientific, technical and financial management of the JRC. The JRC is spread across six sites in five different countries within the EU. Brussels Geel Ispra Karlsruhe Petten Seville Leadership and JRC organisational chart.
A Brief History of the Conference We started our series of conferences with the title “Adam Smith in Our Day”, intending to organize a conference approaching Adam Smith, regarded as the founder of political economy, from the perspective of his works on both political economy and theory of ethics as well as with reference to his prominence and significance in our time. The papers presented in the conference expressed a leftist criticism of classical political economy due to the influence of the emerging global economic crisis. Indeed, the same crisis determined the topic of the following two conferences: “(Economic) Crisis and Development” and “Labour Markets and Employment”. The aim of the former was to analyze the global economic crisis not only through its financial dimension but also from the perspective of all its economic and non-economic aspects with a historical approach on the basis of changing economic policies; while the latter aimed to discuss the relationship between job markets and employment in general, as well as the surge in unemployment caused by the crisis, in particular, as they relate to the changes in economic policies. In 2012 and 2013 conferences, the focus was on the specific characteristics of globalization. Our fourth conference entitled “Flexibility” was organized with a view to analyzing flexibility, a notion which constitutes one of the basic trends of globalization, within a broad context ranging from labour relations to private life and personality traits. The papers presented in this particular conference made it clear that the notion of “flexibility” was predominantly studied in the academia in terms of its negative consequences in labour relations. Our fifth conference “The Reason of the Age” aimed to understand the mentality of the age, directing criticism against the rightist mentality, which advocates a “market / business” approach not only in the economic field but also in political and social fields. The sixth conference series attempted to explain and account for the socio-economic circumstances that have given way to the rise of today’s social movements and different aspects associated with this process in the title “New Socioeconomic Perspectives, Social Movements, Actors”. In 2016, the main theme of 7th conference is defined as “State, Economic Policy, Taxation, & Development”.
About Citi Germany Citi Germany is part of Citi's Institutional Clients Group (ICG). Based in Frankfurt, Citi Germany serves companies, institutional investors and government agencies. Citi is an established advisor in M&A transactions, book runner for debt and equity issuances, arranger for syndicated loans and lender. As one of the leading securities firms, Citi serves all major institutional investment companies in Germany. Further, Citi is one of the most successful issuers of warrants, certificates and derivative products globally. Citi Germany also offers innovative solutions for local and global payment transactions, liquidity and treasury management, trade financing, securities settlement and custody. Citi has had a presence in Germany since 1926 when the City Bank of New York opened its first office in Berlin. This office was a precursor to today's Institutional Clients Group (ICG) business, located in Frankfurt.
Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University Department of Economics and Finance
Institute of Applied Economics and Social Value
The Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value is a research institute within Leicester Castle Business School at De Montfort University (DMU). Our overriding goal is to develop applied research that uses economic theory and methods to address important societal challenges. Institute members are actively pursuing cutting edge research on a range of issues including sustainable economic growth, political economy of international trade and economic relations, pro-social behaviour and the environmental consequences of tourism and firm innovation. A distinguishing feature of the institute is our cross-disciplinary outlook. With a focus on the issue that needs to be tackled, our work draws together people from across subject boundaries to work collaboratively on applied projects. The Institute also puts particular emphasis on the study of social value. To address societal challenges around issues such as health, education, poverty, housing and the environment, it is essential to measure non-financial benefits and costs, including the effects on wellbeing and health. We aim to become a recognised centre of excellence in the valuation of social impact. Members of the institute have a strong track-record of publishing in leading economics and business peer-reviewed journals. We are also eager to engage with external partners from the private, public and third sector in order to drive transformative societal impact.
Vienna University of Technology - Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms
The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) is an initiative of Technische Universität Wien – TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). Located at the Faculty of Informatics, the Center is promoting international scientific collaboration in logic and algorithms. Moreover, the VCLA outreach activities are aimed towards raising aspirations of young people for academic pursuits and to raise awareness on the impact of the research done in the areas of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence among the general public alike. The annual reports offer a detailed overview of all VCLA activities.
The Regional Studies Association works with its international and interdisciplinary membership to facilitate the highest standards of theoretical development, empirical analysis and policy debate of issues at this sub-national scale, incorporating both the urban and rural and different conceptions of space such as city-regions and interstitial spaces. We are, for example, interested in issues of economic development and growth, conceptions of territory and its governance and in thorny problems of equity and injustice. The Association’s journals, magazines and books, along with our global-to-local series of conferences and events position us as a key forum in shaping and disseminating advances in regional studies and science. Members come from economics, geography, political science, planning and sociology backgrounds. Most work in academia but many are working in policy and practice, and membership is truly global. Our great strengths include our embrace of multiple methodologies from quantitative to qualitative, the use of thoughtful comparative research, and boundary spanning between academia and policy and practice. These—and our vibrant mix of members, including active participation from student members and early career researchers—help us to create a dynamic and pro-active environment in which to challenge existing thinking and push the boundaries of knowledge and practice.
Dicle University founded in 1974 is one of the oldest universities in the south eastern region of Turkey. It is located on the banks of beautiful Tigris River, which is called Dicle in Turkish.Apart from its main campus in Diyarbakır, the university has campuses for its vocational schools in counties such as Ergani, Çermik, Çüngüş, Bismil,and Silvan. _ Dicle University with its more than 30,000 students and nearly 4,000 academic and administrative staff is one of the most prominent governmental institutions in the south eastern region of Turkey dedicated to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines. Dicle University faculty is engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. It offers an excellent student experience and a social environment for students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century. It is the mission of Dicle University to achieve world-class excellence in every area of teaching and research. Along with its research and educational activities, the University also serves as a regional health center with its 1,500-bed Research Hospital.