Call for Papers – Firms, Labour Markets, and Development Workshop, 22-23 June 2023, Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto (Deadline: April 15, 2023)

This workshop seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of new research in the field of development economics and its intersections with industrial organisation, international trade, labor economics, and migration.

The workshop will be held on 22-23 June 2023 at the Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy, and is planned as an in-person event.

The workshop calls for papers covering, but not limited to:

•    Firm and sectoral productivity
•    Access to foreign markets
•    Firms in hostile environments
•    Growth and structural transformation
•    Technology adoption, learning, and diffusion
•    Industrial Policy
•    Entrepreneurship
•    Labor Market Frictions
•    Refugees and forced displacement

Keynote speaker:
Elias Papaioannou | London Business School

Limited budget is available upon request to cover accommodation expenses for up to two nights.

Completed papers and/or extended abstracts should be submitted filling this online form this online form.

The deadline to submit is 15 April. Authors of selected papers will be informed by April 28.

The organising committee:
Francesco Amodio | McGill University
Michele Di Maio | Sapienza Università di Roma
Mariapia Mendola | University of Milan Bicocca and LdA
Marco Sanfilippo | University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto