The workshop will cover research related to how economic or other factors as well as public policy can affect the health, well-being, and human capital formation of infants and children. Examples would include: the effects of early shocks and interventions on child health and development, the...

This workshop is focused on the interplay between economic geography, trade in products and production factors, and their relationship to economic growth. We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including (but not limited to): - The causes and consequences...

Graphical models and network models play an important role in social sciences. They model interactions between agents in socio-economic networks but also give a way of representing complex probabilistic relations in large systems. The recent dynamic theoretical development of network modeling is...

There is renewed interest in stochastic choice behavior, with recent key theoretical and empirical contributions. The purpose of this workshop is to bring scholars currently working on stochastic choice, from various perspectives, including decision theory, experimental economics,...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Workshop on Advances in Micro Development Economics aims to create an annual meeting of top researchers in Development Economics. The workshop aims at being a showcase of recent outstanding contributions in the broad literature on development economics. Both...

The past ten years has seen an explosion of interest in large and heterogeneous datasets and the statistical and computational techniques needed to handle them. Most of the innovation in this area has come in statistics and computer science departments, but recently economists have also begun to...

We aim at creating a forum of junior and senior experts to discuss cutting-edge research in the fields of economic growth and fluctuations (EGF). We do not want to limit the range of topics, but rather be broad and open to the best type of research conducted in the EGF field.

This year’s workshop in Science and Innovation will cover all areas of Economics of Science and Innovation, but it will put special emphasis on topics related to the financing of entrepreneurial firms. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Funding new ideas; Entrepreneurial...

A selected number of research papers focusing on the study of monetary policy and other central bank policies, such as the unconventional measures implemented in recent years will be discussed. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the role played by agents’ heterogeneity and...