The title of the theme for the 16th conference: “Tension, Trust and Transformation”, seeks to capture the experiences of recent times, crises and global challenges, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change debates and activism, inequalities and violence, persisting levels of populism...

Erasmus School of Economics is the oldest, and with nearly 7,000 economics and econometrics students and 400 faculty and staff members, the largest school in the Netherlands. The history of Erasmus School of Economics goes back to the year 1913 when the ‘Nederlandse Handelshoogeschool’ was...

The 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will primarily focus on exploring the opportunities enabled by the new technologies and their implications on decision-making and global partnership. As in previous years, the upcoming Annual Meeting will be the foremost platform to drive...

The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

The aim of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics is to promote and advance economic research in Switzerland and to improve the collaboration between the domestic and international research community. An important focus lies also on the promotion of young economist by providing them with...

We invite PhD students and those who have recently received their PhD with a strong link to Switzerland to submit a paper to be presented at this workshop. Papers can be in any field of economics or related social sciences.

Die Jahrestagung besteht aus einem offenen Tagungsteil mit Präsentationen zu freien Themen und aus einem Kerntagungsteil mit eingeladenen Vorträgen zum Thema „Big Data“. Manuskripte zur Offenen Tagung können aus allen Arbeitsgebieten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften eingereicht werden, als...

Decades of twin studies have established that any conceivable human trait has a heritable component, including biologically distal traits such as personality traits, educational attainment, and income. This insight, combined with a rapid increase in the availability of genetic data, has paved...

The European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory (ESSET) is one of the key annual events for economic theorists. It has been held at the Studienzentrum Gerzensee (a foundation of the Swiss National Bank), Switzerland, each July since 1992. ESSET 2022, is retaining the focus of the postponed 2020...

The overarching theme of the SASE 2022 conference will be to explore the paradox of Fractious Connections. This will be done through the lens of four key concepts that have received varying degrees of attention in comparative political economy: Anarchism, Activism, Coordination, and Control. The...