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The IESB and the College of International Mangement “GLOBUS”, Prishtina, Kosovo together with their partners are organising the 4th International Conference on “Building Sustainable Regional Economic Development through SME Development” on the 10th of December 2011 in Prishtina, Kosovo. The deadline for the abstracts is the 31st of October 2011. For more information on the […]

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) invites applications from external researchers for a Visiting Research Program established by the OeNB’s Economic Analysis and Research Department. The purpose of this program is to enhance cooperation with•members of academic and research institutions (preferably post-doc), and with•central bank researchers who work in the fields of macroeconomics, international economics or financial […]

The Global Development Awards and Medals Competition is an innovative award scheme launched by GDN with generous support from the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan, and other donors. Since its inception in 2000, GDN has awarded roughly US$ 2.2 million in research and travel grants to finalists and winners. Winners are chosen by an […]

The 37th EIBA conference is hosted by the Faculty of International Business, Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest, Romania. The conference has a focus on European aspects of international business, such as the impact of the European response to crisis, the euro up and downs, how is the internationalization of European firms affected, or the […]

Dear friends of the wiiw Balkan Observatory, The www.balkan-observatory.net website has been relaunched. The site has now a modern design and is also more user-friendly. A number of new features has been introduced as well. The most important one is certainly the introduction of the The wiiw Balkan Observatory Working Papers series that offers a […]

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank has established an award to commemorate Olga Radzyner, former head of the Foreign Research Division, who died in a tragic accident in August 1999. The award is bestowed on young economists for excellent research focused on topics of European economic integration and is conferred annually at the OeNB’s Conference on European Economic […]

DG ECFIN is organising a one-day workshop on 30 November 2011 in Brussels. The workshop will look at the role of institutions for supporting sound fiscal policies during and after times of economic crisis. It will adopt a broad notion of institutions, comprising institutional characteristics of fiscal governance that structure the budgetary process in its […]