The workshop will cover research broadly related to the determinants of child well-being and human capital development, including health as well as cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Examples may include: the effect of economic conditions on infant and child health, the impact of taxes and...

The contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic prosperity has grown exponentially in recent years with the shift of development economies towards knowledge-based societies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Funding new ideas, Entrepreneurial finance, Venture...

The workshop aims to bring together research that analyzes several aspects of insurance against individual risk from a macroeconomic perspective. These aspects cover forms of (1) mutual insurance either from formal institutions (e.g general tax/transfer system, the pension system, unemployment...

Entrepreneurship is making a dramatic comeback in economics and management as a wellspring of industrial dynamism, innovation, and wealth creation. Despite early contributions by scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight, or William Baumol, entrepreneurship has only recently surfaced as a...

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...

This workshop will bring together experts in banking, regulation, and financial economics to discuss the most recent academic research on financial intermediation. Topics: - Regulation of systemic risk, pro-cyclicality, capital and liquidity regulation, systemically relevant banks and...

We encourage the submission of empirical and theoretical papers from economics and political science. The workshop will run for two days and feature ten to twelve papers, including invited presentations. Each presentation will last for an hour, including comments from a discussant and the...

The workshop aims at creating an annual European meeting of top researchers in political economy within the framework of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. We encourage the submission of empirical and theoretical papers from economics and political science.

The 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 finance -...