The conference will review the emerging patterns of how culture and creativity foster local growth and the implications for policies in the area of employment, innovation, and regional development. Thematic sessions: - Cultural heritage and local development: maximising the impact, - Fulfilling...

HEIRS 2018 international conference will focus on the unconventional triad of Capabilities, Happiness and Opportunities. We welcome proposals from economics, psychology, philosophy, social sciences and humanities in general. The main purpose is one of deepening our understanding of the...

The 6th ICSD 2018 is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global-scale context. The Conference theme is: "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and...

The aim of the 3rd Workshop on Psychological Game Theory would be bringing together psychologists and game theorists, so as for the former to provide the latter with hints about how to model new belief-dependent emotions (new with respect to those already studied in behavioral game theory, e.g.,...

The 2nd summer school in Psychological Game Theory is meant to provide graduate students with all necessary tools to start independently new game-theoretic works modeling belief-dependent emotions, and run related experimental tests, using an interdisciplinary approach. In particular, students...

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...

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 Summer Academy provides training for policy makers and representatives of cultural and creative industries (CCIs). At the end of the course participants will acquire a deeper understanding of the sector, its needs and dynamics and develop expertise in putting in place effective and...

The workshop calls on outstanding contributions in the broad literature on the economics of social and economic networks. Both empirical and theoretical contributions will be encouraged.