This two-day conference focuses on field experiments, how they can inform our understanding of economic behavior and what its limitations are. The covered topics include incentives in the workplace, social identity and discrimination, selection issues, and preference anomalies. The aim of this...

The Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop is a half-year joint event between the DIW, ESMT, WZB, and TU Berlin with the aim of fostering the exchange between active researchers in the areas of behavioral and experimental economics.

The following three focal points are of special interest for the essay competition and the workshops: - Urban Innovation (chaired by Prof. Mieg) - Security Governance (chaired by Prof. Schuppert) - The Power of Religion (chaired by Prof. Casanova)

Topics: · The development of new empirical approaches · Do mistakes from authorities or uncertain environments influence deterrence? · Does over-deterrence exist? · The deterrence impact of plea bargaining on cartels · The deterrence impact of bargaining over remedies on mergers · Policing...

National science systems, particularly those in the OECD countries, have come under considerable pressure to change in the last 10 to 15 years. Given the repeatedly attested importance that science and research have for the innovative capacity of national economies, the need to legitimate...

In recent years, theory and empirical research in Political Science and in Economics have made major progress in identifying and analyzing the causes and consequences of conflict. In view of this progress, Economics of Governance invites contributions on Causes and Consequences of Conflict for a...

The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with the SOEP data.Researchers in all disciplines who use either the Public-Use version of the SOEP or the GSOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent Files...