Against the background of rising support for right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) in Europe, FES Democracy of the Future has recently published the report Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It which unpacks the reasons for the success of these parties. The report identifies...

Small states have been ignored in the literature of the welfare regime, though it is likely that they are confronted with specific issues or problems when dealing with social security. Of course, small jurisdictions are very diverse: they can be rich or poor, reflect different legal traditions,...

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 ageing population and increases in longevity have drawn attention to the management of longevity risk in pension funds, life insurers and health insurers. Governments face the challenge of financing an ageing population with longer life spans and providing an environment conducive to private...

This workshop will focus on the political economy of policies that promote economic development. We are particularly interested in understanding the following questions: Why are growth-conductive policies or regulations adopted in some regions but not in others? What is the role of capture by...

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock'' literature, we hypothesize...

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...

Due to the COVID19 outbreak, the 2020 physical meeting of the ECSR has been cancelled. Given the importance of conferences for early career researchers, we are organizing a one day ECSR online conference on 2 July. On this day, the ECRs who were accepted for an oral presentation at the regular...

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...