What would increase government support around EU enlargement, and what role could membership play in future peace talks? During two summits in March 2022, in Versailles and Brussels, European leaders expressly declined to grant candidate status or even a membership perspective to Georgia,...

The event will be held in a hybrid format with a small number of people joining on site and larger audience watching online. Keywords: Health economics and policy; EU Budget; EU-Finance; Finance; Emerging economies; Decarbonisation; Monetary policy; Digital economy; Innovation; COVID-19; Future of...

As in previous years, the Meetings will offer relevant topical discussions through which we strive to contribute to the quality of economic policy making in Europe and beyond. This time the event comes at a crucial moment in the European political agenda: a few months after the elections of the...

We welcome economic or econometric contributions on the following and related issues: - National safety as a public good - Strategic behavior and credible commitments (initiated by Thomas Schelling) - The theory of conflicts (initiated by Gordon Tullock, Jack Hirshleifer and Kai Konrad) - Theory...

In recent years, however, economic relationships have become more fragile. Established relationships appear to be increasingly threatened by various types of shocks, including natural and man-made disasters, the imposition of sanctions, and the dissolution of existing institutional arrangements....

The original intention behind the ‘Doha Round’ of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was to promote the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. The collapse of the round in 2008 led to pessimism over whether the pursuit of such a ‘development-based’ agenda is...

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

The purpose of this workshop is to achieve a better understanding of conflict and attempt to reach policy conclusions. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, • Contracting in the shadow of conflict • Understanding civil wars • The "Natural Resource Curse" • Alliances and their...