Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. This conference will also launch the new CEPR POE, the New CEPR Research Programme in Political Economy. A limited number of papers will be...

The theme of the conference fits into this debate by placing at its center the reflection on the priorities identified by the NGEU and the NRRP for the design of ‘sustainable’ EU member countries, which can generate added value also in their ability to address issues of inequality and social...

This workshop is focused on the causes and effects of political institutions, and the behavior of voters and politicians facing different constraints, incentives and information. We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from economics and political science addressing...

The workshop will bring together researchers that study how different contexts of social interactions (preferences, cognitive skills, personality, institution, culture, etc.) or institutions affect the possibility of solving or mitigating coordination problems. We are regularly checking safety...

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Program: - “Too Crooked to be Good: Tradeoffs and the Punishment of Malfeasance”, Sofia Breitenstein & Enrique Hernández; - “Social Capital, Corruption and Accountability. Evidence from the Spanish municipalities”, Jordi Muñoz & Pilar Sorribas-Navarro; - “The Fingerprints of Fraud:...

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...