The workshop’s aim is to bring together scholars from economics and politics interested in interdisciplinary work on public policy, political economy and public choice. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers by both economists and political scientists. The workshop is intended for...

Decentralized Finance (DEFI) is changing the financial landscape. What are the consequences on market infrastructures, financial actors, the transmission of monetary policy? Does the concept of "Commons" introduced by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, offer a relevant...

Inflation in most advanced economies has risen to levels unprecedented for at least two decades. Central banks around the world have started to announce rapid moves towards policy normalization and increased interest rates. This conference tries to understand the causes of the inflation...

The conference covers all economic and financial aspects of crypto investment, including the pronounced rise in 2021 of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as cryptocurrency and blockchain derived assets. Of particular interest, are strategic perspectives, investment performance perspectives, as well as...

The conference welcomes research papers, monographies, case studies, PhD research-in-progress and experiential insights on different topics and experiments of alternative finance. ITEM encourages in particular reflections on the social and technological innovations, which broaden and deepen the...

The workshop will bring together leading economists from central banks and academic institutions to consider critical issues related to policy coordination between instruments and between countries. The financial crisis and the ensuing slow recovery brought to the forefront policy coordination...

The conference aims to shed light on what are the characteristics of a resilient and growth promoting financial system, with a view on banking and financial markets integration in Europe. Research papers will analyze various issues such as the link between financial structure and growth, the...

This conference seeks to contribute to the ongoing research into financial regulation, combining approaches by economists, legal experts, political scientists, geographers and historians. It aims to adopt an empirical approach from a comparative and historical perspective to characterize public...

The Policy Evaluation programme presents recent developments in the microeconomic analysis of impact evaluation, with two courses taught by experts in their fields. Providing a credible estimation of a causal effect has become a standard in economic analysis, both in research papers and policy...

The program will include several sessions covering the main areas of International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. Sessions and covered topics: - International macroeconomics (Exchange rates, exchange-rate regimes, international monetary system; Economic growth, business cycles and...