The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Households in Conflict Network (HICN) are organizing an international workshop to bring together researchers from different social sciences and countries sharing a common interest in studying the connections between...

Three lectures on economic design will be given on Monday 27 June 2016 in Lund, Sweden, by - Professor Federico Echenique, Caltech "Revealed Preference Theory" - Professor Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal "Strategy-Proofness in Markets with Indivisibilities" - Professor William Thomson,...

In this workshop we want to consider both the economic dimension and the social dynamics of ageing societies. We welcome submission of theoretical, empirical and policy papers. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the relation between population ageing and the...

The objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behavior and on how this is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. We solicit papers in the following areas, but...

The main goal of the conference is to promote our understanding of the demand and supply side of financial innovation for the household sector. Questions may include, but are not restricted to: - Which mistakes and/or biases are most harmful to household finances? - Is financial innovation for...

Submitted papers should address at least one of the following questions: a) with respect to measurement: • How to measure the freedom/responsibility elements of opportunity? • How to take into account adaptive preferences? • How to measure the object of opportunity element: the "what"...

At the IX ISQOLS Conference in Florence, Quality of Life Studies will be seen in terms of Measures and Goals for the Progress of Societies. In this perspective, we would like that the following key questions could guide the discussion and find an answer at the conference. 1. Can we measure...

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers interested in all aspects of interpretive consumer research to discuss the ongoing cross-paradigm movements, analyse current developments and review the possibilities for integration and differentiation of theoretical assumptions and...