In most OECD countries the era of long-term care (LTC) has arrived. More than two out of five people aged 65 or older report having some type of functional limitation (sensory, physical, mental, self-care disability, or difficulty leaving home). A few years from now, the ageing trend will...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality 2012 will have a focus on decision making in the wild. Formal decision making theory is an abstact construct of great internal coherence which however often lacks correspondence to real world problems. In contrast, the study bounded rationality focuses...

The purpose of the conference is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad...

The Summer School “Bounded Rationality – Foundations of an Interdisciplinary Decision Theory” will bring together young researchers across the social sciences to seek a common understanding of how Homo sapiens forms decisions. Bounded rationality is the key to understanding how people...

Central bank communication and governance questions have taken on greater importance and, as a result, these institutions have become more transparent. While the appeal of greater transparency is seemingly evident, how transparency improves the conduct of monetary policy is subject to differing...

Throughout the course of evolution and personal experiences, biological beings acquire strategies to extract information from their environment in a fast and accurate way. This concept of rationality is opposed to the classical view of rationality, which provides the grounds­ for theories of...

All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of employment and social protection. Both domains are to be broadly defined, the former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in...