What data firms collect, how they use them, and whether they have tools in place that facilitate data driven decision making, including machine learning and AI based methods, is at the core of modern productivity studies. As is the question of what facilitates or hinders adoption of these modern...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

Inflation is back, at levels not seen since the 1970s. Unlike in the 1970s, the rich microeconomic data available today provide a unique setting to test existing theories and develop new ones. The goal of this workshop is to discuss current work on micro-level price adjustment behavior and...

This two-day online international workshop will gather doctoral students involved in research in the field of the Economics of Digitalization with both theoretical and empirical focus. Topics of Interest: Telecommunications ; Internet and Software Industries ; Regulation and Competition Policy...

This junior workshop is aimed at PhD students towards the end of their PhD phase, and Postdocs at the early stages in their career. Submissions may deal with any topic within the broad domain of the economics of education.

The Public Economics Area Conference will take place as an on-site event in Munich and we are pleased to welcome Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University) as the keynote speaker. On the evening of the first day of the conference, the Richard Musgrave Lecture will be delivered by Rosanne Altshuler...

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 as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. The workshop invites...