This two-day workshop provides an opportunity for presentations and discussions about research on the design and impact of public policy on economic and social phenomena in an informal and highly interactive environment. This year we especially encourage submission of papers that examine how...

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms activity, the organization of production and financing decision, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. Topics: - The evolution of firm market power and...

The conference provides a platform for professionals, practitioners, academics, educators and researchers in the various fields of management and business to disseminate and share the latest research, knowledge and experiences in the European and Mediterranean regions and beyond. The following...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

This seminar will present the findings of a report that examines key dimensions of the policy debate around gender and pensions in Ireland, namely the gender pension gap, income poverty, and financial decision-making. The report brings together the findings from a programme of research funded by...

Topics: - Accounting and regulatory compliance; - The continuing challenges and opportunities presented by the adoption of IFRS and other international standardization and convergence projects; - Auditing and oversight of the accounting profession; - Effect of regulation on management behavior,...

The Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructures is the annual event that brings together all the Areas of the Florence School of Regulation. This 8th edition aims to identify the key challenges of digitalisation for traditional network industries; discover various regulatory approaches to...

The conference theme of 2019 is: “Tackling the underlying neural and psychological mechanisms of human economic decision making” Topics preferably combine problems in economics, psychology, and/or neuroscience, and include (but are not restricted to): - Linking choice data and decision...

Driven by advances in digitization, non-standard work arrangements, sharing on online platforms, and direct consumer-producer relationships are becoming important parts of our economic and social life. This development has important consequences for labor relations, consumer choice and product...

Papers are invited from researchers and practitioners, including academic and research economists, and staff and managers in postal administrations and express carriers working on economic issues.