The Seminar focuses on the evaluation of agricultural and rural policies, its methodology and practical experiences, with specific attention to the challenges raised by new emerging objectives of agricultural and rural policies in developed countries. Though the Seminar does not limit its focus...

The different topics take into account the main factors (economic, geographic, social, political, technical, cultural etc.) influencing the localization and globalization of food production and the consequences in terms of sustainability and consumer welfare. The first topic analyses what is...

The conference aims at bringing together the world's best researchers from a variety of fields where the nature of preferences and decision-making is a main area of research. To a large extent, this will combine researchers who otherwise do not regularly visit the same conferences. These include...

Topics must be related to cooperative game theory or economic theory, and its applications.

In recent years substantial progress has been made in developing microeconometric techniques for investigating causal effects. The use of these microeconometric techniques to deal with selectivity and endogeneity problems has become particularly popular in development, education, family, health...

Cointegration is a Nobel-worthy concept in econometrics. The literature contains an overwhelming amount of articles on theoretical refinements and advances of new techniques, while many practitioners rely on the basic tools as programmed in EViews and similar econometric software. Hence, 20...