The topic of the XV Aispe Conference is: “Towards a Comparative History of Economic Thought”. The Conference aims mainly at raising a series of correlated questions, which are both historical and methodological. Is it possible, and desirable, to write a comparative history of economic...

The topic of the 58th RSA is Mezzogiorno/Mezzogiorni: multiple trajectories and multiple equilibria. However, as usual for SIE annual conferences, papers and posters focusing on any theoretical and applied economics topic will be accepted as well.

Topics: - Public goods, externalities and pro-social behaviour, - Welfare economics without revealed preferences, - Taxation and behavioral economics, - Neo-utilitarianism and happiness research: measures and implications for public intervention, - Social preferences, moral behaviour and...

This year’s topic of “People in economics - decisions, behavior and normative models“ was chosen to inspire a debate on the role of people in the design of formal models in economics and finance, in the building of economical and managerial theory and its verification and in the practical...

During the three days of the Conference almost one hundred papers were presented in parallel sessions either in Italian or in English on various subjects, among which: growth in Asian countries, corporate governance, China, Russia, theories of the firm, transition economies, industrial and...

Investments are the gamble on the future of a community. Their benefits span over the present. They stimulate aggregate demand. They have positive effects on expectations as well as spin-offs in terms of knowledge and innovation. Their benefits also project into the future adding productive...

All relevant topics related to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics are warmly invited.

Submissions of papers concerning any aspect of the economic theory and policy are welcome.

Conference Program: SESSIONS A.1 Tracking in schooling A.2 Pre-market abilities A.3 Migrations and Networks A.4 Job insecurity and female labor supply A.5 Job satisfaction A.6 Macroeconomics of the labour market B.1 Determinants of schooling performances 1 B.2 Intergenerational mobility and...

The theme of the conference is Cultural policy in a transformed cultural landscape. The cultural sector is in motion. The classic cultural institutions are being redefined and new types of institutions have appeared. The mediatization, including social media, that blurs the boundaries between...