The pandemic caused by COVID-19 had a very deep and significant impact on economic relationships, especially on international trade, social and employment policies, technological developments, and the macroeconomic context. Against this background, economic researchers and policy-makers are now...

Our intention is to organize ESU 2022 in person. However, we do not rule out other scenarios, such as a hybrid or completely online conference, depending on the evolution of the pandemic. The ESU Doctoral Programme is organized in the following format: - Plenary sessions on specific topics with...

Business actors have entered the 2020s pressed by a pandemic, its subsequent social and economic crisis, and an increasingly disintegrated global market where both the effects and the solutions for the COVID problem are unequally distributed, leading to rising geopolitical tensions across the...

The workshop seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of state of the art quantitative research in Applied Industrial Organization and related empirical fields. We invite submissions from experienced and well-established international researchers as well as promising young scholars in the...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the implications of the rise of intangible technologies. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between the rise of intangibles, firm dynamics, and industry-level and aggregate outcome. We...

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...

This summer school aims to provide an opportunity for PhD students and researchers in entrepreneurship to expand their knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon. Some of these topics include social entrepreneurship, the role of context in entrepreneurship research,...

We will welcome empirical and theoretical submissions of frontier research in all of the current topics of this field. We invite submissions from experienced researchers as well as promising young scholars in the field. A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics is: Relational contracts; Theory of...

This workshop is a forum for junior and senior experts to discuss cutting-edge research in the fields of economic growth and fluctuations (EGF). The workshop is open to the best type of research conducted in the EGF field. The workshop is not limited to any specific topic. We are regularly...

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...