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...

Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

Technological advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, along with the availability of big data, are rapidly changing our environment, from labor markets and firm organization to security, healthcare, and public policy. These developments have also opened new possibilities for...

EIEF will host the “5th Rome Junior Conference on Applied Microeconomics”. The aim is to foster interaction and dissemination of research idea among researchers active in different areas of applied microeconomics. The selection of presenters will give preference to faculty at the early...

The aim is to foster interaction and dissemination of research idea among researchers active in different areas of applied microeconomics. The selection of presenters will give preference to faculty at the early stages of their career. Workshop program: - Knowledge Diffusion through Networks ; -...

Expectations play a key role in any economic model of decision-making under uncertainty. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different fields of economics to better understand how individuals form expectations, how they update their expectations after receiving new information,...

IMEBESS intends to bring together researchers in all areas of the social sciences who are interested in experimental methods. We believe that behavioural economics is increasingly informed by a very diverse range of research traditions. Hence, we are particularly interested in the participation...

The aim of the workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of various themes concerning social norms in multi-ethnic societies. Social norms attract wide interest in many fields of social sciences, and appear to be highly relevant in societies that include groups having...

Topics of the workshop: - Measurement of preferences and personality traits using survey instruments and experiments - Malleability of preferences and personality traits, and their rank order stability - Preferences and personality traits as driving factors of selection into labor market states...

Topics: - Public goods, externalities and pro-social behaviour, - Welfare economics without revealed preferences, - Taxation and behavioral economics, - Neo-utilitarianism and happiness research: measures and implications for public intervention, - Social preferences, moral behaviour and...