This course introduces students to modeling policy choices in a dynamic setting. It starts with applications of dynamic programming techniques to incentive problems, both for the design of policies, their credibility. We then characterize equilibrium when policies themselves are endogenous and...

Invited Lectures, Program 16.06.2016: - The Rise of the In-Work Safety Net: Implications for Families in Strong and Weak Labor Markets. Hilary Hoynes, UC Berkeley and NBER; - The Effects of Immigration on Wages and Employment. Christian Dustmann, University College London and CEPR; - Income...

The organizers welcome proposals for exciting papers that deal with welfare and the welfare state in a broad historical and contemporary perspective from disciplines such as sociology, history, social policy, political science, political philosophy etc. Papers can be both theoretical and...

The aim of this Ph.d. workshop is to illuminate what the “post-crisis post-Lisbon” period comprises in terms of economic and then social policy development. A brief retrospective analysis of European governance transformation, since 1999, points out the spillover from monetary and financial...

This conference calls for papers that directly address the significance of economic nationalism in Asia in an era of changing global capitalism. The central questions that this conference will try to address are how economic nationalism has changed in the last 30 years in Asia and where and how...

The conference will focus on the social and economic transformations occurring at various levels, with particular attention to the interplay between these levels and to the distinct processes of change that may derive from it.