The purpose of the Workshop is to focus on specific challenges around measuring performance in education and other public services sectors. The Workshop will bring together scholars from various disciplines and fields to debate the present and future challenges in education and public sector...

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 had a very deep and significant impact on economic relationships, especially on international trade, social and employment policies, technological developments, and the macroeconomic context. Against this background, economic researchers and policy-makers are now...

The annual Seminar in Economic History of the Banco de España aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to discuss current academic work. The programme will aim to contribute to the progress of the discipline, providing new insights in several historical periods and areas of...

Papers on all aspects of African economic history are welcome, but preference will be given to those that pertain to the conference theme. The plan is to organize the meeting on campus at ULPGC. Due to Covid-19 and the uncertain times we currently live in, we may have to decide to hold the...

The theme of the 2022 RC 19 annual conference is social policy development in the post-Covid-19 era. It welcomes comparative and case study papers that cover a broad range of social policy issues. The focus is on the post Covid-19 world, the implication of the pandemic on people’s wellbeing,...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the implications of the rise of intangible technologies. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between the rise of intangibles, firm dynamics, and industry-level and aggregate outcome. We...

Under what conditions structural macroeconomic shocks can be identified with empirical time series models? Several influential papers have shown that, in many theoretical models, Structural VAR analysis is unable to correctly esimate the economic shocks of interest and their propagation...

This workshop focuses on the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions, such as adjustment costs, informational rigidities, search and matching frictions, costly reallocation, irreversibility, taxation, among others. Topics of particular interest include price and wage setting, capital...

The workshop aims to bring together research that analyzes several aspects of insurance against individual risk from a macroeconomic perspective. These aspects cover forms of (1) mutual insurance either from formal institutions (e.g general tax/transfer system, the pension system, unemployment...

The workshop aims at exploring both the interactions between education and health as well as issues related to the impact of shocks (broadly defined) on the provision of education and health care. We invite researchers working on these or on closely related topics to submit their manuscripts. We...