The Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2022 aims to bring together researchers from around the world, focusing on demography and climate change from diverse perspectives, including - but not limited - to demography, economics, sociology, environmental sciences and geography. Contributions with a...

The world is facing a concurrence of crises: the war in Ukraine and the ongoing recovery from COVID-19 on top of the effects of climate change. While differing very much in nature, these crises all have a decisive effect on economic and monetary policy. With our conference, we seek to develop a...

Welche Auswirkungen hat Digitalisierung auf Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Arbeitswelt? Welche Rolle spielen dabei Geschlechterstereotype? Welche Zusammenhänge und Wahrnehmungen zeigen sich dazu bei Jugendlichen, in der Berufsorientierung und in der betrieblichen Praxis unterschiedlicher...

The pandemic, the crisis in many geopolitically diverse areas and the resulting migration flows, environmental and economic changes extend the range of social challenges to be faced by welfare states. We can observe several paths of change and adaptations that differ across countries,...

The scientific as well as political interest in behavioral responses to environmental policy as well as measures beside the traditional policy instruments (like taxes, permits or command and control) has grown considerably in the last twenty years. “Behavioral schemes” like providing...

The theme of the conference is : Econometrics of Climate, Energy, and Resources and papers on these topics will be given priority for the main program. We plan for an in-person on-site conference (with the possibility to join online if preferred).

Since 1996, DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional and geographic change. DRUID21 invites paper submissions on innovation, entrepreneurship and other aspects of structural, institutional and geographic change,...

After reviewing basic identification strategies in econometrics as well as reviewing main ideas and methods of supervised machine learning, the main part of the lectures concerns causal machine learning, i.e. how to combine the prediction methods of the machine learning literature with the...

In alignment with the Paris targets the EU has committed to carbon neutrality by mid-century. All member states are therefore required to propose and update their long-term strategies for 2050 accordingly. The summer school discusses the current state of economic modeling to support the design...

Key themes of Longevity 16 will include: resilience of the Longevity Risk Transfer Market during the Covid-19 pandemic, mortality trends and forecasts, longevity risk and inequalities, longevity-linked products and hedging solutions, and the sustainability of pension systems.