Cato’s 39th Annual Monetary Conference—Populism and the Future of the Fed—will bring together leading scholars and policymakers to explore the risks that populism poses to the conduct of monetary policy. As the bright line between monetary and fiscal policy fades, and the threat of fiscal...

Conference topics: This year’s Historical Materialism online conference seeks proposals for papers and panels on the following area: - the impact of the pandemic on the right to protest; - the rise of social movements against the state and state institutions; - the relation between the...

We welcome submissions that support the enhanced use of such analysis to promote evidence-based decision making. We welcome submissions on multiple methods used to assist public sector decision making, including benefit cost analysis, cost analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, risk-benefit...

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...

In its 6th iteration, the Politics, Philosophy and Economics conference at Witten/Herdecke university will venture into the territory of “the state”. More specifically, it will focus on the relation between the state and democratic politics. Our guiding question will explore how democratic...

Multicriteria decision aid is an important branch of Operational Research. The main goal of the meeting is to create a forum for the exchange of international experiences in multi-criteria decision aiding. Topics will include the analysis of multi-criteria decisions, presentation of theoretical...

The general theme of the Conference is: “The pandemic’s effects and scenarios for the economy and public finance”. The Scientific Committee of the Conference calls for submissions of both theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues falling within the following specific topics, or...

The literature on institutions and development has often cast societies in a light that contrasts the more inclusive, open-access, and equal ones with other less inclusive ones, but the scholarship comparing Imperial China and Premodern Europe does not fit easily in this framework. We provide a...

The conference will provide an opportunity for researchers to present results of laboratory and field experiments. It will cover all topics in behavioral and experimental economics, such as decision theory, game theory, institutions and markets, neuroeconomics, economic psychology and others....

The workshop provides a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and to identify areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed. Programme: - Session 1: Nation-building & Legislation; - Session 2: Partisanship & Culture in the Economy.