The Midwest International Economics Group was founded in 1981 to foster and encourage research in International Trade. We hold conferences twice a year, in the fall and spring, jointly with the Midwest Theory conference. There are usually about 50 papers presented and roughly 75 people in...

Topics: Without limiting the scope of topics, areas of particular interest are: - regulation, firms, and financial intermediation - law, politics, and finance - monetary policy, inflation, and financial resilience - macroprudential policy and real estate - financial networks and systemic risk -...

The world is facing a variety of severe challenges that are in tension with one another. On the one hand, there is a perceived necessity for an investment offensive bring about decarbonisation. As the paradigm of the night-watchman state is (slowly) disappearing, governments around the globe are...

Next fall, the Economics Department at Purdue University will host Empirical Investigations in International Trade XXXI conference. At this conference, economists specializing in empirical international trade will present their current research. The goal of this conference is to promote the...

Scholars who research historic populations and events are trained to critique their primary sources by considering their provenance, the original intended audience for the source and the process by which the source was created and preserved. This critical work may be a workaday task at the...

The conference welcomes paper submissions on a broad range of topics related to the economics of AI such as innovation, firm creation/destruction, business economics and strategy, organizational economics, macroeconomics and finance, inequality, education, healthcare, labor markets, machine...

Like many countries, the U.S. has a federal system of government, with public policies designed and implemented at federal, state and local levels. Sound policy design and implementation therefore requires thoughtful consideration of how policies play out, and interact, at multiple levels of...

The World Economic History Congress (WEHC) is an international and interdisciplinary event, taking place every third year, placing economic history at its core. The congress appeals not only to economic historians but also to historians, political scientists, management scientists, sociologists,...