This talk argues that there is a gap separating planning practice and the technical and legal requirements that smart city technologies entail. A pertinent case is Quayside, Toronto, where Sidewalk Labs (part of Alphabet and a sister company of Google) and Waterfront Toronto (a three-level...

his workshop is organized by the ifo Center of Excellence for Migration and Integration Research (CEMIR), and will be supported by CESifo. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together junior economists to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and...

“Macro Policies in Turbulent Times” – #KKG107 takes a closer look at key issues in monetary and fiscal affairs. Macroeconomically, the recent years have been turbulent times indeed. Both the pandemic as well as the energy crisis brought about new challenges for monetary and fiscal...

Now in it's thirteenth year, the annual conference of the CESifo Area on Behavioral Economics will once again be organized jointly with the Collaborative Research Center, Rationality and Competition (https://rationality-and-competition.de/). The purpose of the conference is to bring together...

Die Forschung hat sich der vielschichtigen und komplexen „Konstruktion des Unternehmers“ bislang nicht oder nur am Rande angenommen. Das 46. Wissenschaftliche Symposium der Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte soll für analytische Klarheit sorgen, und zwar be- zogen auf den Zeitraum vom...

This two-day conference (starting at Thursday noon and ending on Friday afternoon) seeks to bring together researchers addressing different aspects of social policy, e.g. migration and integration, unemployment insurance, welfare system, pension policy, education policy, family policy, and...

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

Kerntagung: Growth and the 'sociale Frage'