Program: - “Too Crooked to be Good: Tradeoffs and the Punishment of Malfeasance”, Sofia Breitenstein & Enrique Hernández; - “Social Capital, Corruption and Accountability. Evidence from the Spanish municipalities”, Jordi Muñoz & Pilar Sorribas-Navarro; - “The Fingerprints of Fraud:...

The recent economic crisis has posed important challenges to the political institutions and public finances of developed and developing countries. These challenges have motivated scholars to study both the political determinants and consequences of these recent events. The aim of this workshop...

This year’s workshop will focus on challenges to the welfare state and their potential solutions. We invite submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on the evaluation of policies that affect the public sector either on the revenue or on the expenditure side. In particular, the workshop...

The main actor of innovation is the firm. First, innovative firms bring the scientific progress generated in universities and public research centres to the marketplace. Second, they take on the risks inherent in transforming scientific knowledge into financial returns. In this III Workshop on...