Sentences with phrase «european economic research»

I'm writing this brief essay on board my flight to the USA from Europe (where I participated in a workshop at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany).

Less positive reports included the news that investor confidence in Germany fell to a 15 - year low, according to the ZEW Center for European Economic Research.

Indeed, in a 2011 analysis of game sales from 2004 to 2008, A. Scott Cunningham of Baylor University, Benjamin Engelsttter of the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany, and Michael R. Ward of the University of Texas at Arlington found that higher rates of violent game sales actually coincided with a drop in crimes, especially violent crimes.

Not exact matches

The London - based National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a non-partisan think - tank, said in May that the economy of a European Union — free U.K. could be as much as 3.2 % smaller by 2030.

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

«The big problem in the Italian system is that they acted very late,» said Silvia Merler, an affiliate fellow at Bruegel, a European research firm that focuses on economic issues.

And last month, moments before MIT professor James Poterba, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, gave Summers a glowing introduction to a ballroom that contained dozens of European and not a few Russian economists, a smiling Shleifer glided across the front of the hall.

ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomics European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, ORE Operations Research, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

«The Russian budget now is including $ 100 per barrel for the next three years and some more optimistic assumptions on economic growth, which are probably over-optimistic,» Guriev, who is currently a professor of Economics at Sciences Po, a French public research and higher education institution, told CNBC at the UBS European Conference in London.

He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Inaugural fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

The ESS has received funding from the EC's Framework programmes, from the European Science Foundation, and from national funding councils in participating countries (Economic and Social Research Council ESRC in the UK).

A mere six billion Euros is earmarked for tackling unemployment among young Europeans in countries under the greatest economic strain, and around eighty billion is deemed enough to bolster research and innovation — an area in which Europe lags behind other parts of the world.

Ashley is a member of the Industry, Research & Energy Committee and the Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament.

This event will explore the crucial issue of how the centre - left in British and European politics can restore its reputation for economic competence drawing on the recent research from Southern Discomfort — One Year On, which identified that Labour has a mountain to climb in winning back voters» trust.

«The Value of Volunteering» was funded and produced by the Economic and Social Research Council in partnership with the Third Sector European Network (TSEN) and Community Service Volunteers (CSV).

Dee Goddard receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, and also writes for the Foundation for European Progressive Studies» Young Academics Network.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently published the first five adverse outcome pathways (AOP), three of which have been developed by the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

The open innovation initiative in Lombardy is founded in the European Commission's Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3), which include reports on the region's strengths, weaknesses, and areas of opportunity from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

In a research essay to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Economic Entomology, Robert Owen argues that human activity is a key driver in the spread of pathogens afflicting the European honey bee (Apis mellifera)-- the species primarily responsible for pollination and honey production around the world — and recommends a series of collective actions necessary to stem their spread.

LONDON — The head of the Horizon 2020 research budget tried today to blunt criticism of a plan to take $ 2.7 billion from the European Commission's research budget and put it into an investment fund for economic recovery.

The current economic crisis is likely to slow down growth in R&D even further in 2009 and 2010, European Commissioner for research Janez Potočnik warned today at a press conference in Brussels.

But this doesn't mean parliamentarians should sit back for the next 5 years, they add: The Parliament should challenge the European Commission to push governments to invest more in research and innovation, in particular in southern and Eastern European countries that have suffered most from the economic crisis.

This work was funded by the European Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

The dataset used in the research by Professor Hatton, from the European Social Survey, provided a unique opportunity to analyse immigration opinion over a decade that spans the economic turbulence brought about by the global financial crisis.

Following strategically on the heels of last week's launch of Horizon 2020, a proposed $ 80 billion investment in science, the convention aimed to highlight the European Commission's ambitions to turn research into valuable goods and services that will salvage Europe's economic future.

During a day of candid dialogue organized by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and AAAS, participants shared concerns and strategies for a time of global economic and policy challenges involving science and technology.

On Tuesday, the National Assembly approved a new law that aims to simplify the national landscape for research and higher education and make it more efficient, better able to address societal and economic challenges, and more competitive at the European level.

These two documents, addressed to researchers as well as to employers and funders in both the public and private sectors, are key elements in the European Union's policy to make research an attractive career, which is a vital feature of its strategy to stimulate economic and employment growth.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

A report prepared by ISIS (Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems - Italy) together with Tecnalia (Spain) for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) discusses the technological, environmental and economic barriers... Read more →

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Issued by the UNICEF Office of Research — Innocenti, Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries, this is the first report to assess the status of children in 41 high - income countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Author Bio: Ludger Woessmann is professor of economics at the University of Munich, head of the Department of Human Capital and Innovation at Ifo Institute for Economic Research, and coordinator of the European Expert Network on the Economics of Education (EENEE).

A separate study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, also being presented at the European Economic Association conference, shows how the level of learning of teachers influences the outcomes for pupils.

Chris FIELD (Carnegie Institution, USA)-- Chair • Philippe CIAIS (Climate Environment Society, France) • Wolfgang CRAMER (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, France) • Purnamita DASGUPTA (Institute of Economic Growth, India) • Ruth DEFRIES (Colombia University, USA) • Navroz DUBASH (Centre for Policy Research, India) • Ottmar EDENHOFER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Michael GRUBB (University College London, UK) • Jean - Charles HOURCADE (Centre national de la recherche scientifique [INRA], France) • Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA) • Kejun JIANG (Nanyang Technological University, China) • Vladimir KATTSOV (Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia) • Hervé LE TREUT (CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) • Emilio LEBRE LA ROVERE (National University, Brazil) • Valérie MASSON - DELMOTTE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France) • Cheik M'BOW (World Agroforestry Centre [ICRAF], Kenya) • Isabelle NIANG - DIOP (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Senegal) • Carlos NOBRE (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Cemaden / MCTI], Brazil) • Karen O'BRIEN (University of Oslo, Norway) • Joy PEREIRA (University Kebangsaan, Malaysia) • Shilong PIAO (Peking University, China) • Hans - Otto PÖRTNER (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) • Monika RHEIN (University of Bremen, Germany) • Johan ROCKSTRÖM (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Hans SCHELLNHUBER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Robert SCHOLES (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Pete SMITH (University of Aberdeen, UK) • Youba SOKONA (The South Centre, Switzerland) • Jean - François SOUSSANA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

The participants in the research workshop were: Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Denny Ellerman, Part - time Professor, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence H. Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Robert Hahn, Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford; Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Erin T. Mansur, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Albert McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian J. McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; W. David Montgomery, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting; Erich J. Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; John Parsons, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University Lawresearch workshop were: Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Denny Ellerman, Part - time Professor, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence H. Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Robert Hahn, Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford; Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Erin T. Mansur, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Albert McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian J. McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; W. David Montgomery, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting; Erich J. Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; John Parsons, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University LawResearch, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University Law School.

A report on the impacts of climate change on human health published by the European Commission Joint Research Council also shows that coastal flooding and high sea - level rise scenarios could have significant negative effects on mental health, in addition to high economic costs.

My own research (published elsewhere) says raising taxes (stepped, not instantaneous) on liquid transportation fuels (not all carbons) to roughly European levels creates economic incentives to change before there is pain.

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Quantitative estimates of costs and benefits associated with particular policy options can inform responses, but such valuations face a myriad of issues, including the choice of which impacts to «internalize» within the economic valuation, the value of future versus present risk, and how to compare different types of impacts on a common scale (e.g. (Arrow et al. 2013; European Commission 1995; Johnson and Hope 2012; Muller et al. 2011; National Research Council 2010, hereafter NRC2010; Nordhaus and Boyer 2000)-RRB-.

His post-doctoral research focuses on the legal aspects of the Eurozone crisis and the new European economic governance, with a special focus on financial assistance conditionality.

The Parliamentary Information and Research Service of the Library of Parliament has released a series of brief background papers on the Canada — European Union trade negotiations that began last year and that are aimed at achieving a «Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement» (CETA).

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