Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...

The conference aims at covering the following topics: - Incorporating risk in traditional Valuation methods (contingent valuation, choice experiments, experimental auctions,..) - Measuring risk and time preferences through hypothetical vs. Incentive compatible methods - Consumers’ decisions...

Topics: - What are the biases in existing measures of the welfare impact of new goods? - What do we really know about the value of variety for consumers? - How representative for the economic impact of new goods are existing historical case studies (lighting, cell phones, railways)? - What...