Dear colleagues,

The Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society will be held from March 30th to April 2nd, 2016 at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

I attach the call for papers.

Further information can be found at the EPCS webpage: http://www.epcs-home.org/

Best regards,

Axel Dreher 

For over 100 years the UIA has been working to promote and facilitate the work of international associations. We look forward to welcoming you at our Round Table this year.

3rd UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 September in Bangkok at the Centara Grand at CentralWorld.

We´ll discuss:
- the pioneering role of international associations
- creating a good structure and governance for associations
- encouraging corporate activism for an inclusive society
- establishing a consistent visual identity for associations
- engaging, educating, and motivating volunteer workers in a competitve world
- communicating clearly and effectively

with input from
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
- Associations Forum
- Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS)
- Singapore Business Federation
- Union of International Associations (UIA)
- and all the participating associations

You will find the full programme on http://www.uia.org/roundtable/asia-pacific-2015

The registration fee for association representatives is 2,500 THB. Thanks to the support of our partners at Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau, we are able to offer a high-level
educational programme for a low fee. All other elements of the programme are complimentary. Delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements and expenses. (Thai Airways is offering special fares.)

To register for the Round Table, please go to roundtable.uia.org and log in: your username is D1288 and your password is LBIKVUTG.

Two delegates can register with this username and password. If you would like to send more delegates, please contact us.

Looking forward to meeting you there,

Cordially,
Nancy Carfrae
Coordinator, UIA Associations Round Table


PS. Thanks to a partnership agreement, Round Table delegates can also attend Incentive Travel & Conventions, Meetings Asia (IT&CMA) on 30 September and 1 October. IT&CMA
will pay travel and accommodation costs for associations with "hosted buyer" status. For conditions and applications for "hosted buyer" status, please go to http://www.itcma.com/article.php?article_id=3115#hosting

AEIT International Annual Conference 2015
A Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean Area

In collaboration with AEIT Sezione di Napoli, AEIT Sezione di Benevento, IEEE Italy Section
Naples, Italy - October 14-16, 2015
Basilica San Giovanni Maggiore, Rampe San Giovanni Maggiore

POSTDEADLINE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL AUGUST 24, 2015

OVERVIEW
AEIT, association promoting activities which can contribute to the development and spread of culture and technology in areas of increasing importance, such as electrotechnical engineering, electronics, informatics, automation, telecommunications, organizes a conference to seek opportunities that will be determined by the socio-economic policies and technical issues relating to the Mediterranean countries.
In this area the population, unevenly located in developed countries and continuously growing, will not have access to services and energy to match their expectations and their needs. The difficulties raised by the territorial energy balances will be increasingly evident: balances in which the different forms of energy will have size and use dependent on costs, security, development, technology. Territory which will tend to evolve more and more different than in the past and cities that will change to become places of consumption of energy, services, trade. In fact, in Europe, as elsewhere in the world, people will concentrate in "mega-cities" in need to create not only relations within them, but also strong and secure connections with the outside.
In this context, the smart-cities will inevitably lead to the prerequisites for large investments in telecommunications and network infrastructure not only in Europe but also in Africa, where it will also determine the convenience of producing "sustainable energy" in a planned and coordinated way with the same Europe. It will be inevitable the implementation of a policy in the Mediterranean able to create a more balanced socio-economic development and a growth of electrical, electronics, informatics, automation, telecommunications technologies.
That's why AEIT, in line with the cultural objectives that pursues, intends to address topics usually of its interest and expertise, but in the prospect of a new policy in the Mediterranean Area.
The conference, in addition to the issues of economic and social interest treated by authoritative representatives of institutions and companies, will also carry out the traditional technical sessions (oral and poster) and an "Exhibition" for companies.

The conference will be held simultaneously with the 29th edition of the event FUTURO REMOTO, which will have the theme "The Borders" and will be held in Piazza Plebiscito.
Round tables, speeches and memories will take advantage of the contributions of Institutions, Enterprises and Professional Associations and will be parted into the following thematic areas:
  The Mediterranean
  The European Supergrid
  The Metropolitan City and the Mega City
  The Research in the European Perspective

TOPICS
  Energy Efficiency
  Transportation, Distribution, Utilization of Energy
  Renewable Energy Sources
  Energy Storage
  Utilities
  Smart Grids
  Urban and Extra-Urban Transports
  ICT
  Telecommunications
  Broadband
  Photonics
  Automation
  Bioengineering
  Materials
  Forensic Aspects
  Electronics, Microelectronics and Components
  Nanotechnologies
  Motors and Electric Drives
  Electrical Generators
  Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility
  Education and Scientific and Technical Communication
  Dependability and Safety

POSTEDEADLINE Papers Submission

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on the indicated topics.
Contributions can also be written in Italian or English language.
Authors shall submit an EXTENDED ABSTRACT (3 pages-twocolumn format) by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., using the template no later than
August, 24th 2015
Authors will be notified of their post deadline contribution acceptance by
September, 10th 2015
FULL PAPER (6 pages - two-column format - using the template) shall be submitted by
September, 30th 2015
All papers will be reviewed.
All papers written in English language are going to be considered for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Papers have to be compliant with the following criteria:
  Authors should only submit original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor which is under review for another publication or conference.
  The contributions shall be written in ENGLISH.
  The contributions shall be 6 pages in A4 format (including abstract, tables, figures and references).
  The contributions shall be prepared in electronic format using the template
  A copyright and consent form, properly filled and signed, must be submitted

http://www.aeit.it/man/CA2015/ENG/documenti/Template.dot

Secretariat
AEIT Ufficio Centrale
Via M. Macchi 32 - 20124 Milano, Italy
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Web Site: http://www.aeit.it/man/CA2015/ENG

Call for Papers
Regional Productivity Workshop
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Sede Región Centro
Aguascalientes, AGS, Mexico, October 16-17, 2015

The Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) invites research paper submissions for the "Regional Productivity Workshop".

The deadline for submissions is August 15th, 2015.

The workshop will be held on October 16-17, 2015, at the CIDE Aguascalientes.

This workshop seeks to gather a group of researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of regional policy working in regional economy productivity topics to discuss research done in the field and to build a network of Latin American economics interested in regional productivity.

 Scholarly articles with a focus on policy issues in Latin America are especially encourage, but any work with focus on productivity is welcome. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to policy implications, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

Structure of the sessions:

The Workshop includes two invited speakers who will open the session of each day and one invited speaker to talk during the Young Researchers Session.

Presenters of selected papers will have30 minutes to discuss their work and take questions. Presentations are intended to identify pressing public policy issues and emerging research themes in regional economic productivity.

At the Young Researchers Session (YRS) (October 16th) new entrants in the field will have their papers discussed by senior colleagues.  The papers in the YRS will be assigned extra time (45 minutes including discussion). PhD students or recent PhD holding their degree for at most 3 years may qualify as Young Researchers. Full Papers should be submitted via the conference's website, choosing the Young Researchers' option.

The workshop will also provide networking and professional development opportunities for faculty and graduate students who are interested in pursuing research in Latin America´s regional economic issues.

Keynote Speakers:

In addition to selected paper presentations there will be three keynote speeches by:

Antonio Álvarez Pinilla                                 Universidad de Oviedo        

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings                                   University of Illinois

Mark Partridge                                              University of Ohio                    

Tentative Program:

1st Day

1.- Opening Ceremony: Dr. Geoff Hewings (University of Illinois)

Title: "Enhancing productivity: a solution to the problem of ageing population"

2.- Young Researchers Session:  Dr. Antonio Álvarez Pinilla (Universidad de Oviedo)

Title: "Modelling Challenges in Regional Productivity"

3.- Lunch

4.- 1st group of sessions

2nd day

5.- Opening Session: Dr Mark Partridge (University of Ohio)

Title: "Are the Most Productive Regions Necessarily the Most Successful?"

6.- 2nd group of sessions

7.- Lunch

8.- Round table discussion and closure of the Workshop ( with the 3 speakers)

Title: "Regional Productivity: Going Forward"

Costs:

There is no fee, but registration to the workshop is required by September 10, 2015.

CIDE will offer a limited number of full grants to cover travel expenses. Those interested in a full grant should mention it when sending the paper and a current CV.

Language:

All Workshop sessions will be held in English.

Submissions:

Prospective participants should submit a full version of the paper in English NLT August 15th, 2015 to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Authors will be notified of the final decision by August 31st, 2015.

Please feel free to make any inquiries about the event at the above email address or visit our website http://regionalproductivityworkshop.yolasite.com/ 

Organizing Committee:

Rafael Garduño                                                         CIDE-RC

Pedro Hancevic                                                         CIDE-RC

Héctor Núñez                                                            CIDE-RC

The Review of Regional Studies

The Official Journal of the Southern Regional Science Association

The RRS is an Open Access journal with no subscription, submission, or publication fees of any kind! We are indexed on RePEc, ECONLIT, Cabell's, ABI/Inform, and EBSCO. Our RePEc Simple Impact Factor for July 2015 is 1.444, which ranks us in the top 20% of RePEc journals. Journal Archives

Vol 44, No 3: Spatial Econometric Association Special Issue

This issue is a collection of some of the papers presented at the 2013 conference of the Spatial Econometrics Assocation. Guest edited by Giuseppe Arbia, Ingmar Prucha, and Gianfranco Piras.

Table of Contents

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very pleased to invite you to Dijon (France) to participate to the 8th edition of the Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honor of Professor Jean Paelinck. The workshop will be held in October 23-24, 2015.
The conference aims to provide a forum for debate between young and consolidated researchers and it is open to both theoretical and applied papers, which deal explicitly with questions of spatial statistics and econometrics. It will be of special interest those contributions that within the scope of “Specification searches in spatial econometrics: theory and empirical issues”. We especially encourage submission by junior researchers.

Keynote Speakers:

Raymond Florax (Purdue University)

Daniel Griffith (University of Texas at Dallas)

Wilfried Koch (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Deadlines:

Abstracts submission extended deadline: July 26, 2015
Full paper submission deadline: September 4, 2015
Notification of acceptance of papers: September 20, 2015

You are invited to submit your paper or abstract to the following email address: 

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please find enclosed the call for papers. More information concerning the workshop is available at:
http://metodos.upct.es/8JP/

We are looking forward to meeting you in Dijon.

--

Rachel Guillain