We are looking for profs, post-docs and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge at University of Toronto in Canada. Participants will be matched with other researchers working in the same field (e.g., dev economics, American Politics). Each team will work on replicating a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

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...

Nauro Campos (University College London) will present his research co-authored with Fabrizio Coricelli (University of Siena, Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Marco Frigerio (University of Siena) entitled The Political U: New Evidence on Democracy and Income. Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin...

We investigate whether the occurrence of elections affect access to credit for firms. We perform an investigation using firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. We find that elections have a detrimental influence on access to credit: firms are more credit-constrained in...

Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of crises and over the perceived failure of ‘the elites’, the question stands as to how populist governments actually perform once elected, especially in times of crisis. Using the...

Bei den 34. Benediktbeurer Management-Gesprächen soll es dieses Mal um die Diskussion der folgenden Fragen gehen: - Wie einflussreich ist Lobbying? Führt Lobbying zur „Privatisierung der Demokratie“? - Hat jede gesellschaftliche Gruppierung dieselben Fähigkeiten und Möglichkeiten,...

This colloquium shelters the “Fourth FUSL-Workshop on Economic Design and Institutions” and the “Fourth CORE/Maastricht- Workshop on Advances in Collective Choice”.

Papers can be on any topic in Economics, Finance or Management Science as related to risk and insurance.