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...

Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

Inflation is back, at levels not seen since the 1970s. Unlike in the 1970s, the rich microeconomic data available today provide a unique setting to test existing theories and develop new ones. The goal of this workshop is to discuss current work on micro-level price adjustment behavior and...

Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

The conference will cover a variety of themes related to upcoming macroeconomic risks and the policies needed to tackle them. These topics include (but are not limited to): - Inflation risk and monetary policy ; - Polarization within a monetary union ; - Managing global debt ; - Advances in the...

The global and European economy have been operating under increasingly unstable conditions for a considerable period of time. More recently, the growing threat of inflation in times of high debt as well as the war in Ukraine have exacerbated the instabilities. Against this background, the...

Topics: Macroeconomic implications of new monetary policy strategies; Monetary policy in models with heterogeneous agents; Implications of structural changes for monetary policy; Monetary policy and bounded rationality of economic agents; Distributional effects of conventional and unconventional...

The Workshop is intended to provide a forum for dissemination of frontier research on Economic Growth and related fields. Contributions on the following topics are particularly encouraged: - R&D, Innovation and Growth; - Financial Development and Growth; - Growth, Technical Change and Economic...

Conference theme: Economic Tendency Surveys and Economic Policy. Special Topic: Measuring output gaps and growth potentials. Topical Issue: Economic implications of the pandemic's impact on both the U.S. and world economies, with a particular emphasis on business cycles.

The conference is planned as an in-person event. Should travel restrictions bind by the time of the conference, we will allow speakers to participate on-line if needed. We welcome submissions of theoretical or empirical papers addressing issues including (but not limited to): - Business cycles...