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Event : Policy and programme evaluation in Europe: Cultures and prospects
Dates : July 3 and 4, 2008
Location : European Parliament - Strasbourg
An official event of the French présidency of the European Union 2008
The French Evaluation Society and the DeGEval für evaluation is pleased to announce its European Symposium entitled “Policy and programme evaluation in Europe: Cultures and prospects”
Exchanging experiences
Is there a diversity of cultures and practices of public policy evaluation in Europe? How can such a rich variety be used in constructing the future of evaluation?
The symposium shall explore the diversity of analyses and approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of public policy and programmes in Europe on a local, regional, national and EU level.
The focus shall be the respective roles of the executive, the legislative, expertise and the citizens. What are relationships between them? What are the political, institutional and historic stakes for each country and at the EU level?
This will be the occasion to strengthen connections within the evaluator community and to enhance the institutional foundations of evaluation.
The Société Française de l’Évaluation and the DeGEval-Gesellschaft für Evaluation (in Germany and Austria) are pleased to welcome you at the European Parliament, one of the political hearts of Europe, for this event, which part of the official agenda of the French Presidency of the European Union for 2008.
More of 20 countries will be represented
Highpoints of the symposium
Platforms for exchanging practices, methods and approaches in evaluation across Europe through 7 cross-boundary forums and 10 thematic sessions :
Session A: Evaluation of research, innovation and competitivity policies
Session B: Evaluation of employment and social cohesion policies
Session C: Evaluation of health policies
Session D: Evaluation of agricultural and rural policies
Session E: Evaluation of sustainable development and environmental policies
Session F: Evaluation of policies related to dependency and association activities
Session G: Workshop on assessment impact
Session H: Evaluation of local and regional development policies
Session J: Evaluation of education policies
Session K: Evaluation of development aid policies
Forum 1: What are the various forms of institutionalisation of evaluation in Europe?
Forum 2: How and to what extent are evaluations accessible for citizens?
Forum 3: How does evaluation contribute to modernising the public administration?
Forum 4: What and where are methodological innovations in Europe?
Forum 5: Standards and practices: national diversity and common references?
Forum 6: Is a professional category of « evaluator » emerging in Europe, and how?
Forum 7: How can evaluation be distinguished from neighbouring activities and how can their complementarity be developed?
A panorama of evaluation of policies in the European Union and the diversity of the institutional foundations of evaluation in Europe at two round tables :
- Evaluating the policies of the European Union
- Evaluation in a few European countries
The first debate on evaluation to bring together national and European political leaders on the subject of “Evaluation – a vector of democracy in Europe ?” This debate in the plenum of the European Parliament is not to be missed!
Working languages : english and french with simultaneous translation
Practical information :
The programme (english, french and german versions), practical information and general conditions of participation are available on :
http://www.sfe.asso.fr/fr/strasbourg2008.html
For reduction of registration fee: sign up before the 15 th May
The French Evaluation Society, and her partner the DeGEval für Evaluation, remain at your disposal for further information.
Contact :
Société Française de l'Évaluation
1 avenue Porte de Montrouge
75014 Paris
00 33 (0) 1 45 41 58 40
sfe.strasbourg2008@orange.fr
Campus for Finance – Research Conference
The Campus for Finance would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all areas of finance to the Campus for Finance - Research Conference, taking place at WHU in
Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008.
All submitted papers must be in English. For detailed information on the submission requirements, please refer to the registration requirements or visit our homepage at http://www.campus-for-finance.com/index.php?id=685.
The academic board will award the WHU Finance Award including a prize of 1000 EUR for the best paper and 500 EUR for the second winner.
June - July 2008
Event: SUMMER SCHOOL ON PUBLIC ECONOMICS: Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of public policies
Dates: June 25th - July 3rd, 2008
Location: Barcelona
The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) is pleased to announce its I Summer School on Public Economics, entitled ‘Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of public policies’, which will consist of two courses: one on ‘Evaluation of Public Policies’ and another one on ‘Efficiency Analysis in the Public Sector’. The objective of each course is twofold. The first one is to offer an intensive training programme for PhD students on Public Economics, which will include computer sessions. The second objective is to provide young scholars with the opportunity to discuss their own ongoing applied research in public organizations with leading researchers in the field in a relaxed and open atmosphere. To accomplish this purpose, the students will have the opportunity to present their applied research work at sessions attended both by the invited lecturers and by IEB researchers.
Courses
The two courses will be held during the mornings:
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Evaluation of Public Policies (June 25-28)
Lecturers: Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan) and Michael Lechner (Universität St. Gallen).
Topics: Social experiments, matching, instrumental variables, panel data and regression discontinuity.
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Efficiency analysis in the Public Sector (30 June-3 July)
Lecturers: Tim Coelli (University of Queensland) and Andrew Street (The University of York).
Topics: Production technology, stochastic frontier analysis, mathematical programming approaches (DEA) and productivity measures.
Activities
Workshop sessions will take place in the afternoon, including students’ presentations.
Participants
PhD students from all over the world and young researchers who finished the dissertation no longer than 3 years ago.
Application procedure
Send your CV and a one-page description of the topic of your PhD dissertation to ieb@ub.edu. In case you intend to present a paper, send also an extended abstract or preferably the paper. Only PDF files will be considered. A letter of support from your PhD supervisor must be sent by post mail (see address below). Application for one course does not entail application for the other. Hence, if you were interested in taking both courses, two independent applications should be submitted.
Fees and expenses
There is a registration fee of 400€ per course, which includes documentation and working lunches. Further information (application form, schedule, reading list and programme) will be available soon at “www.ieb.ub.edu”.
Scholarship
People presenting a paper can apply for a scholarship that covers the course fee and the accommodation.
Deadlines
Deadline for the application: April 14, 2008
Deadline for acceptance of the application: May 3, 2008
More information can be found at http://www.ieb.ub.edu
January 2008
Conference Name: The Economics of the Health Care and the Pharmaceutical Industry,
Date: January 25-26, 2008 with the following link:
Venue: Toulouse
http://www.idei.fr/activity.php?a=6753&lang=en
January 2008
Announcement and Call for Papers
13th Coalition Theory Network Workshop
Integration and Cooperation in Socio Economic Networks and Coalitions
Venice, Italy, 24-25 January 2008
http://www.feem.it/ctn/
FEEM, in cooperation with the University of Venice's Research Center SENECA, will be organising the XIII CTN Workshop in Venice, Italy, on 24-25 January 2008.
This conference will be mainly concerned with the processes of integration, coordination and cooperation in socio-economic networks and groups. Prominent examples are international environmental policy, enlargement and functioning of economic unions, formation and dissolution of trade blocks and custom unions, role of international relation networks in international cooperation. One section of talks will be devoted to contribution in the area of integration and segregation in socio-economic networks; both theoretical and empirical works are welcome. Possible applications range from racial policies to models of cultural (e.g. linguistic) diversity and colonization.
Submissions of contributed papers are due by November 18th and the programme will be announced on December 10th. Please send submissions to silvia.bertolin@feem.it. Complete papers are preferred but abstracts are also welcome.
Papers will be selected by a committee consisting of representatives of the nodes of the Coalition Theory Network: Center for Operation Research and Econometrics (CORE) - Université Catholique de Louvain, Department of Economics - University of Warwick, Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne (CES) - Université Paris 1, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Center for the study of the Organisations and Decisions in Economics (CODE) - Universitat Autnnoma de Barcelona, Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) - Université de Marseille, Department of Economics - Universiteit Maastricht, Vanderbilt University.
Further inquiries should be directed to Ms Silvia Bertolin (silvia.bertolin@feem.it).
Updates on the workshop programme and logistics at http://www.feem.it/ctn/
APRIL 2008
Conference Name: 11th conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (sgf)
Date: April 11, 2008,
Publisher of the journal "FinanCIAL markEtS And Portfolio Management"
Website: www.fmpm.ch
Submission of a paper
We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research by Submission of a Speech
Additionally to the academic sessions the conference also features a practitioner’s workshop with speeches on current trends in financial markets. Practitioners are invited to submit an abstract of their speech via the online application tool on www.fmpm.ch by Registration
There is no deadline for registration. The conference fee is 100 CHF. In case you do not register for conference participation beforehand, the walk-in rate amounts to 150 CHF. On
For further questions please contact
Prof. Dr. Matthias Muck or
DekaBank Chair of Financial Controlling
Kärntenstr. 7, 96052
E-Mail: jan.marckhoff@sowi.uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 - (0)951 - 863 2093
Fax: +49 - (0)951 - 863 5091
APRIL 2008
ECPR Joint Session on Remittances, Public Policy and the State in Rennes, France from 11. April 2008 to 16. April 2008
Abstract: Academics and policy consultants of international organizations are increasingly aware of the importance of workers’ remittances for poor countries. There are now numerous accounts of the causes and (economic) consequences of remittances. We do, however, know substantively less about how national and local governments try to manage these flows and whether they should do so from a normative point of view. And yet, governments more and more attempt to tap into this potential source of finance for development. The session invites contributions that seek to explain and/ or judge governments’ attempts to affect remittances, before, during and after remittances are sent in both the home and host countries of foreign workers. We are interested in the politico-economic determinants of these public interventions as well as their consequences. We also welcome contributions that show the relationship between remittances and related fields of study such as the political economy of international migration or of financial sector development in poor countries. We welcome approaches that make use of the tools of political economy (formal modelling, statistical analyses on international or sub-national data).
Deadline for proposals: 1/12/2007
Further information:
http://www.ecpr.org.uk/rennes/Workshop_details.asp?workshopID=24
Achim Kemmerling (a.kemmerling@jacobs-university.de)
May 2008
EEFS2008 European Economics and Finance Society
Call for papers
22nd - 25th May 2008,
The theme of the Conference will be:
“Globalised Labour & Capital Markets, National Resources and Shifts in Economic Power”
Paper Submission: Abstracts of papers and/or session proposals should be submitted electronically by January 15th , 2008 to the scientific committee of the conference as attachments (doc or pdf format) at the following email address: eefs@eap.gr
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should contain JEL classification codes. The authors’ full name, affiliation, address, phone/fax, and e-mail for correspondence should also be indicated. An entire paper may be submitted, when available, but it must include an abstract.
Proposals for complete sessions are also encouraged. Each session should be made up of three papers. In the submitted proposals, session organizers should indicate the name of the session chair, the names, affiliations, contact numbers and e-mail addresses of the authors and the chair, and the titles of the papers, each accompanied by the paper abstract.
We welcome theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented papers. Participants are expected to serve as programme chairs at the Conference sessions.
For the Organizing Committee:
Prof. George M. Agiomirgianakis, Prof. Eva Cihelková
President EEFS http://www.eefs.eu/ Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies
Hellenic Open University and City Faculty of International Relations
University,
Email: gmagios@city.ac.uk President Organising Committee
eefs@eap.gr Email: cihelka@vse.cz, steinmet@vse.cz
We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research by
Submission of a Speech Registration For further questions please contact Prof. Dr. Matthias Muck or
ECPR Joint Session on Remittances, Public Policy and the State in Rennes, France from 11. April 2008 to 16. April 2008 Abstract: Academics and policy consultants of international organizations are increasingly aware of the importance of workers’ remittances for poor countries. There are now numerous accounts of the causes and (economic) consequences of remittances. We do, however, know substantively less about how national and local governments try to manage these flows and whether they should do so from a normative point of view. And yet, governments more and more attempt to tap into this potential source of finance for development. The session invites contributions that seek to explain and/ or judge governments’ attempts to affect remittances, before, during and after remittances are sent in both the home and host countries of foreign workers. We are interested in the politico-economic determinants of these public interventions as well as their consequences. We also welcome contributions that show the relationship between remittances and related fields of study such as the political economy of international migration or of financial sector development in poor countries. We welcome approaches that make use of the tools of political economy (formal modelling, statistical analyses on international or sub-national data). Deadline for proposals: 1/12/2007 Further information: http://www.ecpr.org.uk/rennes/Workshop_details.asp?workshopID=24 Achim Kemmerling (a.kemmerling@jacobs-university.de) May 2008 EEFS2008 European Economics and Finance Society Paper Submission: Abstracts of papers and/or session proposals should be submitted electronically by January 15th , 2008 to the scientific committee of the conference as attachments (doc or pdf format) at the following email address: eefs@eap.gr Abstracts of no more than 200 words should contain JEL classification codes. The authors’ full name, affiliation, address, phone/fax, and e-mail for correspondence should also be indicated. An entire paper may be submitted, when available, but it must include an abstract. Proposals for complete sessions are also encouraged. Each session should be made up of three papers. In the submitted proposals, session organizers should indicate the name of the session chair, the names, affiliations, contact numbers and e-mail addresses of the authors and the chair, and the titles of the papers, each accompanied by the paper abstract. For the Organizing Committee: Prof. George M. Agiomirgianakis, Prof. Eva Cihelková President EEFS http://www.eefs.eu/ Vice-Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies Hellenic Open University and City Faculty of International Relations University, Email: gmagios@city.ac.uk President Organising Committee eefs@eap.gr Email: cihelka@vse.cz, steinmet@vse.cz
Additionally to the academic sessions the conference also features a practitioner’s workshop with speeches on current trends in financial markets. Practitioners are invited to submit an abstract of their speech via the online application tool on www.fmpm.ch by
There is no deadline for registration. The conference fee is 100 CHF. In case you do not register for conference participation beforehand, the walk-in rate amounts to 150 CHF. On
DekaBank Chair of Financial Controlling
Kärntenstr. 7, 96052
E-Mail: jan.marckhoff@sowi.uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 - (0)951 - 863 2093
Fax: +49 - (0)951 - 863 5091
APRIL 2008
Call for papers
22nd - 25th May 2008,
The theme of the Conference will be:
“Globalised Labour & Capital Markets, National Resources and Shifts in Economic Power”
We welcome theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented papers. Participants are expected to serve as programme chairs at the Conference sessions.
May 2008
Conference Name: Egon-Sohmen-Symposium 2008: The Economic Consequences of Globalisation
Date 26-27th May
Place: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2008
Contact: tanja.gewis@ihs.ac.at
Website for further information: http://www.ihs.ac.at/index.php3?id=1100
The conference is organised by the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna and funded by the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation.
The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers and pactitioners working in international trade and finance. Studies focusing on macroeconomic consequences of international integration of goods and factor markets, financial and trade liberalisation, exports and productivity , foreign direct investment and liberalization of financial sevices are particularly solicited. The focus of such studies may be theoretical, empirical, historical or policy oriented.
Travel and accommodation expenses can be covered for all academic participants.
JUNE 2008
Conference Name: Monte Veritr - Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics SURED 2008
Date: June 2-5, 2008
Place:
Call for papers: http://www.cer.ethz.ch/sured_2008/call
Deadline for paper submissions: January 31, 2008
Contact address: sured@ethz.ch
Conference Homepage: http://www.cer.ethz.ch/sured_2008
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