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 -...

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.

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...

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...

Both theoretical and empirical papers are encouraged in areas that include, but are not limited to: Asset Pricing, Banking, Financial Econometrics, Capital Markets, Financial Intermediation, Corporate Finance, Financial Crises, Corporate Governance, Market Microstructure, Financial Regulation,...

Only papers on religion will be considered. From previous experience, we expect a large number of submissions, and we will unfortunately not be able to accommodate everyone. We will cover expenses for all presenters and discussants.

The conference theme of 2019 is: “Tackling the underlying neural and psychological mechanisms of human economic decision making” Topics preferably combine problems in economics, psychology, and/or neuroscience, and include (but are not restricted to): - Linking choice data and decision...