The conference aims to bring together high-quality theoretical and empirical research providing new insights into the economics of climate change and its relation to the financial system at large, including monetary policy and financial regulation. Topics: - Climate-related risks to financial...

The Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2022 aims to bring together researchers from around the world, focusing on demography and climate change from diverse perspectives, including - but not limited - to demography, economics, sociology, environmental sciences and geography. Contributions with a...

Research questions that contributors to the conference might address are: - How do sustainability issues affect different forms of finance for publicly traded firms versus privately held firms (including venture backed, crowdfunded, etc)? - In what ways do FinTech innovations enable...

Research Clusters were set up by the Heads of Research in order to encourage interaction and collaboration between researchers working on fields of common interest. The Research Cluster is open to all European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and Bank of England (BoE) researchers and participation...

Preventing climate change is one of the largest global challenges requiring extensive actions by both firms and policy makers. This will also require a substantial transformation of flows intermediated by the financial sector. Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the extent to which 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,...

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 scientific as well as political interest in behavioral responses to environmental policy as well as measures beside the traditional policy instruments (like taxes, permits or command and control) has grown considerably in the last twenty years. “Behavioral schemes” like providing...

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...

We invite papers that address the changing nature of the Nordic welfare states and other European countries in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic (as an external shock) or in response to other structural and institutional changes. Both quantitative and qualitative investigations and studies...