We are delighted to announce The 2023 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2023). The conference, jointly organized by University of Southampton Business School (University of Southampton, UK), Audencia Business School,...

Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

The 17th Conference will focus on the challenges posed by climate change. Public opinion has changed and European policy-makers, businesses and the financial sector have started to recognise the importance of climate change and biodiversity on the lives of people and the economy. Climate action...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. Attendance by registration only.

This event has been cancelled due to the global health crisis. The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America.

After the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991 a number of prominent researchers explored the diverse forms of capitalism and their evolution. Much of this literature countered both mainstream and orthodox Marxist views that capitalism would tend to gravitate towards one form, such as the Western...

There seems to be general agreement that „populism“ has been on the rise over the past decade, and that it has implications for election outcomes and economic policies. There is the notion that pupulist economic policies oriented towards short-term gains at the cost of long-term structural...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

The aim is to analyze topics related to the institutional underpinning of fiscal policies. The workshop focused on research at the intersection of political economy, public finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest included: (i) the political determination of public policies (fiscal and...