This two-day workshop provides an opportunity for presentations and discussions about research on the design and impact of public policy on economic and social phenomena in an informal and highly interactive environment. This year we especially encourage submission of papers that examine how...

Research about the causes and implications of inequality is ongoing, and this workshop aims at both providing some answers and promote further efforts. Understanding the roots of inequality is an important issue, and the first step to designing measures aimed at promoting equality of opportunity.

Specific topics of the seminar are: - Cultural changes and food consumption. - Local culture, global culture and rural/sustainable development. - Food quality and culture. - Cultural issues in the organization of agri-food global value chains. - Culture and innovation. - Culture and agricultural...

The twelfth ESPAnet Italy annual conference aims to shed light on the complex intertwining of politics and policy, scales, and opening and closures in welfare transformation, that may increase inequalities. La conferenza annuale di ESPAnet Italia intende accendere i riflettori sul complesso...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on social norms in developing countries.

TIBER brings together Economists, Psychologists, Marketing researchers and others who work on Behavioral Decision Making, either in individual or interdependent settings. We look for empirical contributions from diverse fields, such as Individual Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, Bargaining,...

Most taxation systems imply a redistribution of resources aimed at reducing economic inequality in the society. Tax evasion represents a major source of inequality, irrespective of the redistribution goal in a country. The 6th edition of the Shadow Economy Conference will investigate the extent...

Conference Program: Session 1: M&As and Human Capital ; Session 2: Workers and Corporate Governance ; Session 3: Financial Development, Policy and Human Capital Accumulation ; Session 4: Equity Issuance, Business Groups and Human Capital.

The Workshop is intended to give young economists a chance to meet and discuss their work on Social Economy, and to stimulate interaction with peers and tenured scholars. Theoretical, empirical and experimental papers on topics such as social capital, social norms, cooperative and social...