CEMAFI

The MEEA is a private, non-profit, non-political organization of scholars interested in the study of the economies and economics of the Middle East. The geographical term "Middle East" is used in its widest usage. Its objectives shall be:
- promotion of high standard scholarship ;
- facilitation of communication among scholars through meetings and publications, and promotion of cooperation among persons and organizations committed to the objectives of MEEA.

[MEEA Website]

Themes

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The themes covered during the conference include:

Country Risk and Foreign Direct Investment
- Country risk, its components, determinants and measurement
- Influence of country risk on foreign direct investment
- Role of foreign direct investment in providing financial stability and preventing financial crises
- Institutions and Risk premium determinants

Capital flows
- Impact of capital flows on the economy
- Policies and capital flows
- Relationship between capital flows and financial markets
- Remittances

Globalization and regionalization
- Trade and financial liberalization
- Industrial and regulatory policies
- Labor markets and migration
- Monetary policy and monetary unions
- Fiscal policy in a globalized world

Sustainable development
- Responsible investment
- Environment and development
- Laws and regulations on international, regional and local levels
- Corporate social responsibility
- Socially sustainable development

Social macroeconomics
- Poverty and inequalities measurement
- Pro-poor growth
- Gender inequalities
- Unemployment and employment policies

Linking Macroeconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Program

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[program of the 8th International Conference MEEA, pdf format]

Organisation

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Program Committee

MEEA Program Committee : Mine Cinar (Loyola University Chicago, MEEA Summer program Coordinator), Hadi Esfahani (President, MEEA, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana), Hassan Aly (Treasurer, MEEA, and past organizer of summer 2007 conference of MEEA, Ohio State University) and Edward Sayre (University of Southern Mississippi).

IUM-HFRI Program Committee : Victor Planas-Bielsa (HFRI director), Nathalie Hilmi (HFRI), David Ansiau (IUM Research Director), Marie-José Rinaldi-Larribe (IUM)

UNSA-CEMAFI Program Committee : Albert Marouani (President of UNSA), Claude Berthomieu (CEMAFI director), Alain Safa, Jean-Charles Briquet-Laugier, Anna Tikhonenko, Damien Bazin, Valérie Bérenger (CEMAFI) et Messaoud Zemouri (University of Batna, Algeria).

Organising Committee

HFRI Organising Committee : Nathalie Hilmi

IUM Organising Committee : David Ansiau, Marie-José Rinaldi-Larribe, Céline Mercandalli

CEMAFI Organising Committee : Alain Safa, Jean-Charles Briquet-Laugier, Diane Gauffridy
With the help of Post-Doctoral & Ph.D. Students: Saoussen Ben Romdhane, Moez Ben Tahar, Raymond Cagliero, Ouidade Chatti, Rokhaya Diagne, Mohammad Djirimu, Sophie Durand, Azin Eftekhari, Fatemeh Enayati, Saeede Enayati (ép. Majlesi), Brahim Gana, Thouraya Hadj-Amor, Betül Kasar, Mohammadreza Majlesi, Julien Miannay, Hela Miniaoui, Anastasia Ri, Madj Salameh, Marius Samizafy, Seyed Salahaldin Sasan, Kamilya Syleymenova, Irina Syssoyeva (ép. Masson).

Special thanks to the technical and administrative staff of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis: Christophe Bansart, Eraldo Callea, Caty Conraux, Emilie Deplantay, Laetitia Moch, Céline Piret.

Sponsors

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CIF
The CIF was created by the initiative of the president of Nice University, Prof. Albert Marouani, and is the first college in France aiming to develop interdisciplinary tools in the new field of complex system science. The CIF seek to advance interdisciplinary research activities between Finance, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology, Biology and Economy.
ANR* Project: PROPOORSUDS
« Croissance et pauvreté multidimensionnelle dans les SUDS »
*financed by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche
Centre d’Études en Macroéconomie et Finance Internationale
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis.
Director: Valérie Bérenger (berenger@unice.fr)
The project deals with with the study of the causes of poverty, the analysis of the impact of economic growth and the identification of growth strategies that foster poverty alleviation in the process of development of the South Mediterranean countries.

Ecole Doctorale DESPEG (Droit, Sciences Politiques, Economiques et de Gestion)
Doctoral School (Law, Political Science, Economics and Management)
The Doctoral School DESPEG is a plurisdiciplinary school of the Faculty of Law, Political Science, Economics and Management, the Institute of Business Administration and the Institute of Law, Peace and Development (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis). It consist of six research centers and one Mixt Research Unity, with more of 110 professors accredited as research directors and nearly 440 students pursuing doctoral education.

DREEM
OBJECTIVES
• Promoting Euro-Mediterranean relations and in particular economic research on the countries situated around the Mediterranean.
• Connecting researchers from the South of the Mediterranean with French and European researchers.
• Establishing relations between French CNRS institutes located abroad, research centres in Southern Mediterranean countries and research centres in France.
• Supported by French research structures of both shores of the Mediterranean in order to help young researchers integrate into the common research area, the specific feature of this GDRI consists in reinforcing the French-Mediterranean integration into the field of social sciences in general and of economics in particular, resting on the promotion of French-speaking communities in the South of the Mediterranean. On this basis, the GDRI also aims to associate English-speaking Mediterranean partners.

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