Decentralized Finance (DEFI) is changing the financial landscape. What are the consequences on market infrastructures, financial actors, the transmission of monetary policy? Does the concept of "Commons" introduced by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, offer a relevant...

At this conference, experts from academia, trade unions and the European Commission will exchange perspectives on the impact of NextGenerationEU (NGEU) on national and EU social and labour policies. How different is this recovery strategy from the way the EU managed the 2011 euro crisis? What...

Against the background of rising support for right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) in Europe, FES Democracy of the Future has recently published the report Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It which unpacks the reasons for the success of these parties. The report identifies...

Small states have been ignored in the literature of the welfare regime, though it is likely that they are confronted with specific issues or problems when dealing with social security. Of course, small jurisdictions are very diverse: they can be rich or poor, reflect different legal traditions,...

We live in uncertain times with new and existing challenges demanding our attention. As countries around the world were hoping to focus their efforts on exiting the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, Russia’s actions in Ukraine, and its response, are throwing economies into further...

Due to the COVID19 outbreak, the 2020 physical meeting of the ECSR has been cancelled. Given the importance of conferences for early career researchers, we are organizing a one day ECSR online conference on 2 July. On this day, the ECRs who were accepted for an oral presentation at the regular...

The SoFiE Financial Econometrics Schools are annual week-long research-based courses for Ph.D. students and new faculty in financial econometrics. This summer school covers various selected topics from particularly active recent research areas in asset pricing and financial econometrics, with an...

The conference covers all economic and financial aspects of crypto investment, including the pronounced rise in 2021 of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as cryptocurrency and blockchain derived assets. Of particular interest, are strategic perspectives, investment performance perspectives, as well as...

The seminar is open to contributions in the fi eld of the economics, sociology and demography of pensions and ageing, covering the following themes: - the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the various aspects of pensions and ageing; - economic and demographic cycles, public transfers and...