Events

The Events of the Department of Development and Security.
24 to 25 Sept 2012

Workshop Workshop of the Economics of Security Initiative

The next workshop of the Economics of Security Initiative will be held on 24‐25 September 2012 at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. The deadline for submitting papers is 30 April 2012.

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
25 to 27 June 2012

Conference 12th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference at DIW Berlin

The 12th Jan Tinbergen Conference, annual meeting of NEPS, will take place on 25-27 June at the DIW Berlin, Department of Development and Security. The Jan Tinbergen Conference is Europe's leading interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the field of peace science and conflict research. The program is multi-disciplinary in nature and reflects the broad spectrum of approaches used in the field. The objective of the conference is to further extend the knowledge base of the participants concerning the state of the art of peace research in Europe and to deepen the international and inter-disciplinary cooperation of younger and more established researchers in this field.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
10 to 11 May 2012

Conference Micro-Level Analysis of Well-Being in Central Asia

The transition from a planned to a market economy has had dramatic consequences in all post-Soviet republics but especially so in Central Asia. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we wish to examine the well-being of individuals and households in these countries.


We aim at bringing together researchers from several disciplines, especially economics, sociology, geography, and anthropology, in this conference.

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 477
23 to 27 April 2012

Workshop TAMNEAC Training Camp

The consortium of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) will hold its second project meeting in Kampala, Uganda on 23-28 April 2012. The Training Camp will take place in cooperation with Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
06 to 07 February 2012

Workshop Final EUSECON Workshop
European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward

The EUSECON project will hold its Final Workshop on the Economics of Security on 6 - 7 February 2012 in Brussels. The Workshop will be co-organised and hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

What are the driving forces behind terrorist activities and organised crime? How does insecurity impact individuals and the private sector and how do they respond to it? What is the role of European policy in dealing with these threats? What new forms of insecurity, such as maritime piracy, have emerged recently? These and other questions have been the focus of the four-year research project EUSECON – A New Agenda for European Security Economics. Funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Tilman Brück at DIW Berlin – German Institute for Economic Research, the project analyses economic causes, forms and effects of the human drivers of insecurity as well as security measures.

EUSECON has convened leading security economists and social scientists from across Europe. The research carried out in the project has already found its way to publication in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Science, European Journal of Political Economy, Defence and Peace Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution and in a series of policy briefs published online. Click here for more information about the research and publications on security economics.

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Location
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Brussels
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
31 October 2011

31 October 2011 to 1 November 2011 Workshop TAMNEAC Kick-off Workshop

The TAMNEAC consortium will hold its first meeting on 31 October - 1 November 2011 at DIW Berlin. The Kick-Off Workshop will bring together the project team, introducing the research agenda and providing opportunities to exploit synergies between different research initiatives. The meeting is followed by initial skills training for TAMNEAC fellows on 2-3 November at DIW Berlin.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
28 to 29 Sept 2011

Seminar Doctoral Research Seminar in Growth and Development 2011

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Heidelberg University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and other universities will participate in the seminar this year.

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 441
24 to 25 June 2011

Conference Development Economics and Policy

The 2011 Conference on Development Economics and Policy will be hosted by the KfW Development Bank and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

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Keynote Speaker
  • Alan Winters (Sussex University/ Chief Economist at DFID)
    Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University, Italy).
Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 441
27 May 2011

Workshop EUSECON workshop on the macroeconomic impacts of insecurity and security policies

The project EUSECON (A New Agenda for European Security Economics) will hold a workshop on 27 May 2011 at University of Thessaly, Volos (Greece) dedicated to the macroeconomic impacts of insecurity and security policies. The aim of the workshop is to meet in a small group of experts to review the lessons learnt from the project and look for synergies between individual project research papers . The meeting is organised by Christos Kollias (University of Thessaly) and Tilman Brück (DIW Berlin).

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
08 April 2011

Workshop EUSECON workshop on the microeconomic analysis of determinants and effects of insecurity

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Location
DIW Berlin (Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
04 April 2011

Workshop Policy Workshop "The Global Economic Costs of Conflict"

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German Foundation for Peace Research (Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are holding a policy workshop on 4 April 2011 to present the research results of the Global Economic Costs of Conflict (GECC) research project to policymakers and offer a forum to interactively discuss the results and consider their policy implications.

 

Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 441
20 to 22 March 2011

Event Inaugural General Assembly Meeting of the Global Young Academy

The Global Young Academy (GYA) will hold its inaugural general assembly meeting from March 20th to 22nd at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (DIW Berlin). The GYA is an international and independent institution of approximately 100 young scientists from 46 countries. The initial support of the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) was instrumental in founding the organization, and more recent generous financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation of Germany has enabled the development and growth of the GYA. The meeting will also mark the launch of the GYA Secretariat, which will be located in Berlin, Germany. The head of the Department of International Economics at DIW, Tilman Brück, is a member of the Executive Committee of the GYA.

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Location
DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 317
19 to 21 January 2011

Conference The Global Economic Costs of Conflict
International Research Conference

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are organizing an international research conference on the costs of conflict and related themes. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and to compare theoretical, empirical and methodological research focusing on the costs and consequences of violent conflict.

The deadline for submission of papers is 8 November 2010.
Please see the call for papers for more information.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 334
23 Nov 2010

Workshop EUSECON Policy Workshop

The EUSECON Consortium will hold three small-scale workshops dedicated each to microeconomic, macroeconomic and policy aspects of the project. The first meeting in the series, organised jointly by DIW Berlin and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) on November 23th 2010 in Hamburg, is dedicated to policy implications of the research undertaken in the project.

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
30 Sept 2010

Seminar Third Doctoral Seminar in Development Economics

The seminar aims to establish an informal network of young scholars in the field of development economics. Doctoral students from DIW Berlin/Humboldt University Berlin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Frankfurt University, Georg-August-Göttingen University, Mannheim University and other universities will participate in the seminar this year.  

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Time
9am - 5pm
Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
07 to 08 June 2010

Workshop The Behavioural and Cultural Foundations and Consequences of Violence
International Research Workshop

The Institute of Social Sciences (ICS, Lisbon) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are organizing an international research workshop on the behavioural foundations and consequences of violence. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different social science disciplines and countries and to compare current theoretical, empirical and methodological research perspectives.

Please send your completed paper and a short curriculum vitae (maximum two pages) by email and in PDF format to violence.workshop@ics.ul.pt by 28 February 2010. 

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01 to 02 February 2010

Workshop The Global Cost of Conflict
International Research Workshop

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) are organising an international research workshop on calculating the costs of conflict and related themes. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different institutes and to compare cutting-edge theoretical, empirical and methodological research on how to calculate the costs of conflict and on related themes.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2009.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 277
03 Dec 2009

Workshop Workshop Discussion: The Fate of the Jews in Germany from 1933-45

International Economics Department at DIW Berlin and the Junge Akademie are organising a German-language workshop discussion titled "The Fate of the Jews in Germany from 1933-45: iinterdisciplinary discussion of methods and micro-level questions".

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at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 662
23 Nov 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar: Peter Emerson

Peter Emerson will give a seminar titled "Adversarial democracy is an oxymoron?".
Peter Emerson is the director of The de Borda Institute in Belfast, which performs work in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the Caucasus and East Africa. Its goal is the promotion of more representative democracy and to inform voters, politicians and academics about the negatives of typical voting procedures like majority voting, which is characterised as "the most inaccurate measure of collective opinion ever invented". The alternative proposed by the institute is the modified Borda count which has been promoted by the institute since 1978.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Schumpeter Saal) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408
05 Nov 2009

Seminar International Economics Seminar: Wim Naude

Wim Naude (UNU-WIDER) will give a presentation on 'International Entrepreneurship from China: Evidence from Firm Level Data'.

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Location
DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin
Contact(s)
at DIW Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 89789 408