The North American Workshop is running as part of Southern Economic Association Conference. The North American Workshop on Cultural Economics is intended to provide a forum for the development and dissemination of economic research in cultural economics, as well culturalrelated applications of...

Criticism of the Federal Reserve is mounting, whether it’s President Trump tweeting that Chairman Powell is not following his advice or progressives calling for the Fed to use its monetary powers to fuel government spending. Amid public scrutiny and at a time of growing uncertainty for the...

There seems to be general agreement that „populism“ has been on the rise over the past decade, and that it has implications for election outcomes and economic policies. There is the notion that pupulist economic policies oriented towards short-term gains at the cost of long-term structural...

The conference will cover a variety of themes related to the use of alternative datasets for economic analysis and monetary policy. Topics: - Econometric methods for the analysis of large unstructured datasets - Structural analysis with large datasets - Large micro datasets for monetary policy -...

The payments system is changing substantially, facilitated by innovations in information technology. The Chicago Payments Symposium provides an independent forum for discussing and collaborating on the most pressing payments issues of the day.

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...

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.

Themes: - Digital currencies, fintech, and technology; - Regulation, markets, and financial intermediation; - International economics; - Macroeconomics, monetary policy, macrofinance, as well as monetary policy frameworks and communication; - Inflation dynamics; - Policy lessons from the history...

While this conference will feature papers all across topics of traditional concern for socio-economics, we especially welcome submissions addressing these changes in politics, the economy, and society at large. How can we understand the direction in which we are headed? What are the various ways...