News archive - [Event Announcement and Call for Papers] Conference "Public Sector Economics 2017 – Public investment: catalyst for sustainable growth" - Deadline 15 May 2017!
The Institute of Public Finance (IJF) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung are organizing the research and policy conference Public Sector Economics 2017 – Public investment: catalyst for sustainable growth, which will take place in Zagreb on 3 November 2017.
Subject
The conference will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, conditions under which raising public investment can sustainably lift growth, and the associated implications for public finances and debt. We invite submission of theoretical, empirical and policy papers on macro-fiscal analysis, public debt, productivity growth, R&D, infrastructure and investment financing, public sector governance, energy and resource economics, transportation, education, health care, culture, urban and housing development, adaptation to climate change, public sector transparency, accountability and public participation, etc., in both advanced and emerging market economies and both at the national and the sub-national levels of government.
Conference Outline
Keynote 1: Public investment and economic growth
Keynote 2: Scope for boosting public investment: macroeconomic, public finance and financial market aspects
Possible sessions on:
1. Impact of public investment on growth and public finances
2. Public investment financing: domestic, regional and cross-border aspects
3. Complementarities between public and private investment
- Public infrastructure, R&D and productivity growth
- Governance of public investment projects and creating the right business climate
4. Where to invest in the public sector
- Energy and resource economics
- Transportation
- Education
- Health care
- Urban and housing development
- Adaptation to climate change and other public expenditure in support of sustainable growth
- Public sector transparency, accountability and public participation
There is no conference fee.
Submission
Submissions of abstracts (300 to 500 words) or finished articles by 15 May 2017, to PSE2017@ijf.hr. Submissions must be in English and should include keywords as well as authors' full name(s) and affiliation(s) and contact details of the author in charge of correspondence, such as address, email address and phone number.
Acceptance for presentation will be communicated no later than 31 May 2017.
Completed papers are due by 15 October 2017.
Source and further information: IJF
- Croatia
- Western Balkans
- Cross-thematic/Interdisciplinary
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Public Sector Economics 2017_Background and Call for Papers (pdf, 682.02Kb)
Entry created by Giorgio Piccirillo on May 9, 2017
Modified on July 13, 2017
