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...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

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 pandemic, the crisis in many geopolitically diverse areas and the resulting migration flows, environmental and economic changes extend the range of social challenges to be faced by welfare states. We can observe several paths of change and adaptations that differ across countries,...

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,...

Both practitioners and academics, are invited to submit papers on any topic within the field of public economics. While over 80% of the world’s population live in low- and middle-in-come countries, research in public finance has for a long time been focused on high-income countries. In...

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...

To meet our climate targets and to reduce the economic dependence on fossil fuels we have to develop alternative energy systems and set up an appropriate infrastructure. This transition requires additional investments from companies and governments. Our conference will focus on these investment...