The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

The conference will address cross-sectoral issues and aspects related to sustainable management of sectors like agriculture, industry, energy and transport; as well as the adoption of sustainable life styles reducing individual ecological footprints, equity concerns, and strategies for poverty...

Conference theme: There seems to be dynamism and drive in Africa. The continent’s average growth is almost five times the Euro zone average growth and some of the world’s fastest growing economies are in Sub Saharan Africa. Some observers believe that Africa will play an increasingly...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

The central theme of the conference will be the consequences of and the lessons to be learnt from the economic and political rise of new global actors, including countries like China and India. The resulting power shifts and the strengthening of interactions between developing countries have...

By invitation only.

Climate change is one of the greatest collective action problems facing the international community. The fiscal implications of climate change are, arguably, immediate, lasting, and they are liable to affect all countries, albeit in rather different forms and degrees. The aim of this conference...

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...

The tax systems of developing countries differ considerably from those of developed countries. Revenue raised as a percentage of GDP is smaller than in developed countries and tax structures also differ considerably. The workshop is intended to bring together researchers working in this field to...

All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of employment and social protection. Both domains are to be broadly defined, the former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in...