Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

The 5th Annual Conference on European Studies: Europe in Unchartered Territories brings together economists and political scientists to address European socio-economic issues, with the objective of contributing to the evaluation and design of institutions and policies in and for Europe. This...

The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. This conference will also launch the new CEPR POE, the New CEPR Research Programme in Political Economy. A limited number of papers will be...

The theme of the conference fits into this debate by placing at its center the reflection on the priorities identified by the NGEU and the NRRP for the design of ‘sustainable’ EU member countries, which can generate added value also in their ability to address issues of inequality and social...

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Programme: Session I: "How uncertainty changes our behavior – and how we can deal with it" ; Session II: "How Behavioral Design enables success – insights from practitioners"; Session III: "Is less more? Overcome complexity with behavioral insights" Programm: Session I: "Wie Unsicherheit...

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...