Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

The theme of the 2022 RC 19 annual conference is social policy development in the post-Covid-19 era. It welcomes comparative and case study papers that cover a broad range of social policy issues. The focus is on the post Covid-19 world, the implication of the pandemic on people’s wellbeing,...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. Attendance by registration only.

This event has been cancelled due to the global health crisis. The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America.

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...

By organising this conference, the Bank of Lithuania seeks to gather policy advisors and academics to discuss best practices and solutions to these pressing labour market challenges. We expect that the ideas and insights shared at the event will aid Lithuania’s policy makers in adopting...

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 aim is to analyze topics related to the institutional underpinning of fiscal policies. The workshop focused on research at the intersection of political economy, public finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest included: (i) the political determination of public policies (fiscal and...