This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of institutional research.

The workshop aims to bring together a group of researchers applying experimental methods (in terms of e.g., incentivized elicitation methods, games, and/or randomization between treatments) in the study of the behavior of managers, entrepreneurs and firms.

The workshop will bring together researchers interested in studying entrepreneurship. We will pay special attention to issues with policy relevance and will discuss incentives promoting entrepreneurship, relevant program evaluations, entrepreneurship and institutions, financing entrepreneurship...

A major part of the conference will be devoted to: “Macro-economic factors and finance” Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit papers for presentation at the symposium. Papers should have a quantitative background, with empirical testing of models, or...

The aim of the workshop is to discuss new research on the importance of information frictions for macroeconomic fluctuations. Suitable paper topics include: - Information and sentiments as sources of aggregate movements - Heterogeneity in information, beliefs and expectations - Confidence and...

The background to the workshop is the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm that has taken place during the last 35 years. In spite of all the progress in the field the traces in microeconomic and industrial organization textbooks are scant.

This half-day seminar aims to shed light on a number of issues connected with privatization in general and the Swedish situation in particular. First, what is the role of state-owned companies in today’s economy? What sectors are more suitable for state ownership and has this changed over...

The goal of the workshop is to present the state of the art of applications of partial differential equations to finance.