The Annual Conference is the cornerstone event of the Canadian Economics Association. Each spring, a programme of State of the Art Lectures, Special Sessions, and academic papers is presented. The conference is hosted in a beautiful Canadian city by a Canadian University where participants...

This is the fifth annual Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice. Scholars from around the world discuss recent work on issues involving the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. Presenting a series of studies that address pressing policy issues, long-standing problems in...

There is nowadays a growing consensus in academic and policy circles that regulating corporations, financial institutions, and markets ideally postulates a truly interdisciplinary approach. The DFG LawFin Center supports the quest for fruitful interdisciplinarity by gathering economists and...

We are delighted to announce The 2023 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2023). The conference, jointly organized by University of Southampton Business School (University of Southampton, UK), Audencia Business School,...

CELS brings together scholars from law, economics, political science, psychology, policy analysis, and other fields who are interested in the empirical analysis of law and legal institutions. CELS presents papers that engage empirical and experimental scholarship on legal issues spanning all...

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

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...

Law and Economics (L&E), also known as the Economic Analysis of Law, is one of the most rapidly growing fields in legal and economic research.