Gender differences in human capital investments, labor market outcomes, and other socioeconomic outcomes – in both the developed and developing world – is an active area of research in economics. In general, different scholars have been working on the topic in developed countries than in...

The relation of poverty and inequality to environmental hazards and changes are complex and important, and this workshop aims to motivate high-quality research on these links. A (non-exhaustive) list of keywords for possible contributions are: - Natural disasters, weather, or climate and the...

Global productivity growth—the key long-term driver of living standards—fell sharply following the global financial crisis and has remained sluggish ever since. This decline has been associated with subpar global economic growth and record-low real interest rates. If sustained, low...

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...

The workshop aims to combine theoretical research and empirical evidence of taxation in the digital economy. The goal is to facilitate interactions between researchers focused on industrial organization, i.e., responses of prices/firms and public finance economists interested in the effect of...

This workshop will focus on how governments set fiscal policy in the presence of mobile agents and how these agents respond. The workshop will feature both theoretical and empirical papers and welcomes papers containing both approaches. A goal of the workshop is to facilitate interactions...

The aim of this workshop is to discuss empirical and theoretical approaches that investigate the effects of regional policies and to learn more about the underlying mechanisms and consequences. Beyond those topics, the workshop should serve as a platform to address more broadly local public...

The military conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, the terrorist threat and the deterioration of international relationships, but also trade wars and other less violent forms of international conflict remind us of the continues role of conflict in the international...

Household-level data on consumption expenditure underpin key policy questions, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, including monetary policy, tax policy, social security, and their relation to consumption, savings, and inequality. While the measurement of consumer expenditures at the household...

Economic performance in the euro area has been very heterogeneous since 2010. Intra euro-area real exchange rates, however, have not adjusted very much during the last six years. This is arguably a major cause of the euro area's current woes. Yet, to date, there is no consensus as to why there...