We welcome economic or econometric contributions on the following and related issues: - National safety as a public good - Strategic behavior and credible commitments (initiated by Thomas Schelling) - The theory of conflicts (initiated by Gordon Tullock, Jack Hirshleifer and Kai Konrad) - Theory...

Participants are expected to address, and deliver potential answers to, a number of specific questions including, but not limited to: • Have the recent changes to the Eurozone fiscal framework been effective? • Does the Eurozone require deeper fiscal integration? • What are the benefits...

The aim of this workshop is to promote economics tools to study entrepreneurship. Therefore, the emphasis will be on a selection of works that investigate the following: - the location choice of entrepreneurs and policy interventions that can help develop location-specific factors; - the...

Behavioural political economy uses behavioural concepts in explaining decisions of politicians, candidates for political office, voters, lobbyists, and others in the political and policymaking arena. Decision-makers may be subject to bounded rationality. Utility maximisation may be based on...