Dear colleagues,

We are organizing the next INFER Annual Conference as part of the scientific activities supported by the CREIP research center (www.urv.cat/creip). INFER AC will take place in Reus, at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Rovira i Virgili University in June 2016 (8th, 9th and 10th).

The INFER Annual Conference will include 16 special sessions with a wide variety of topics. Here you have the list of these sessions and the organisers.
 

1. SIMBIEN Network "Sustainability of the welfare state and intra and intergenerational redistribution of income": Hèctor Sala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Xarxa de Recerca en Economia i Polítiques Públiques) and Ció Patxot (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Xarxa de Recerca en Economia i Polítiques Públiques).
2. “Fiscal Policy and Business Cycle”: Andreea Stoian (Bucharest University of Economic Studies).
3. “Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets”: Andreea Stoian (Bucharest University of Economic Studies) and David Duffy (University of Ulster).
4. “Firm Location and Relocation Processes”: Camélia Turcu (Université d’Orléans) and Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
5. “Economic History”: Jordi Guilera (Lisbon University).
6. “The Eurozone crisis: how will it end?”: Alberto Bagnai (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio").
7. “Spatial Econometrics”: Miguel Manjón (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Oscar Martínez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Karen Miranda (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
8. “Creative Industries”: Rafael Boix (Universitat de València) Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
9. “University Spin-offs. Results of entrepreneurship in academia”: Pere Segarra (Entrepreneurship Chair: Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Judit Albiol (Entrepreneurship Chair: Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
10. “The Financial Cycle: Assessment by Early Warning Systems and Consequences”: Virginie Coudert (Banque de France and University of Paris West Nanterre la Défense).
11. “Economic Culture of Industry Companies”: Miguel Ángel Pérez Benedito (Universitat de València).
12. “Fiscal Policy Convergence in the European Union”: Bernd Theilen (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
13. “Policy regimes and forecasting”: Peter Claeys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
14. "Network Configurations, Location, Innovation and Time": F. Xavier Molina-Morales (Universitat Jaume I), Angeles Montoro-Sánchez (Complutense University of Madrid) and Isabel Díez-Vial (Complutense University of Madrid).
15. “Energy Economics”: Maria Llop (Energy and Development Chair: Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
16. “Growth prospects and trends in terms of entrepreneurial typology”: Pere Segarra (Entrepreneurship Chair: Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Judit Albiol (Entrepreneurship Chair: Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

The INFER Annual Conference will include keynote speeches by Prof. Guillem López Casasnovas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Prof. Thierry Mayer (SciencesPo), and Prof. Diego Puga (CEMFI).
 
Remember that submissions to special and ordinary sessions must be send to infer2016@urv.cat by 29th February. For further updates please visit:
 
http://wwwa.fundacio.urv.cat/congressos/infer-conference/
 

Kind regards,
  
Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod
Universitat Rovira i Virgili & CREIP