The ageing population and increases in longevity have drawn attention to the management of longevity risk in pension funds, life insurers and health insurers. Governments face the challenge of financing an ageing population with longer life spans and providing an environment conducive to private...

This workshop will focus on the political economy of policies that promote economic development. We are particularly interested in understanding the following questions: Why are growth-conductive policies or regulations adopted in some regions but not in others? What is the role of capture by...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock'' literature, we hypothesize...

The theme of the 2022 RC 19 annual conference is social policy development in the post-Covid-19 era. It welcomes comparative and case study papers that cover a broad range of social policy issues. The focus is on the post Covid-19 world, the implication of the pandemic on people’s wellbeing,...

Both practitioners and academics, are invited to submit papers on any topic within the field of public economics. While over 80% of the world’s population live in low- and middle-in-come countries, research in public finance has for a long time been focused on high-income countries. In...

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 workshop aims to bring together research that analyzes several aspects of insurance against individual risk from a macroeconomic perspective. These aspects cover forms of (1) mutual insurance either from formal institutions (e.g general tax/transfer system, the pension system, unemployment...

The workshop aims at exploring both the interactions between education and health as well as issues related to the impact of shocks (broadly defined) on the provision of education and health care. We invite researchers working on these or on closely related topics to submit their manuscripts. We...

The aim of the conference is to provide researchers a friendly environment to present and discuss their latest research. Topics of interest include: 1. The extension of Social Security and Pension Redesign 2. Population Ageing and Financial Market Issues 3. Integrating the accumulation and...

The conference organizers welcome submissions on any topic related to the general theme of economic behavior and inequality, including but not limited to: - Formation of inequality in various key outcomes and the role of economic behavior; - Role of heterogeneity and biases in behavior and...