Theme of the Conference: Fifteen years after the Global Financial Crisis: Recessions and Business Cycles in the History of Economic Thought. Special attention will be granted to proposals that aim to explore how economists have explained the business cycle phenomenon in general, and its crisis...

The conference will be held in person at the University of Greenwich, London. Students from the Global South who cannot travel to London will be able to present their work at a dedicated hybrid session with limited spots available. The conference gives students the opportunity to present a...

The world economy is witnessing an unprecedented surge in inflation, which has led to a globally synchronized tightening of the monetary policy stance across advanced and emerging economies. Against a backdrop of growing fears of global economic fragmentation and a resurgence of geopolitical...

Cyberspace, as the backbone of the digital single market and being strongly embedded in our society, reflects this uncertainty through the increasing number of threats and attacks we’re seeing on digital technologies. Against this backdrop, the EU’s posture on cybersecurity should respond to...

This year’s workshop theme is individual level consequences of exposure to violent conflict with an emphasis on innovative designs, new methods and data to identify causal impacts of armed violence exposure on social, economic, and political behaviors and attitudes of individuals. We invite...

The global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing energy crisis have affected households differently depending on their socioeconomic status. In addition, households react differently to economic policies, depending on the specific constraints to which they are subject and the...

Topics: - Methodological innovation in interpretive consumer research; - Theoretical approaches that provide new or alternative ways of understanding consumers, consumption and consumer culture (PhD students can submit the theoretical frameworks that underpin their doctoral theses); - Concepts...

Household economics is defined as the economic analysis of household decisions, including decisions regarding consumption, labor supply and other uses of time, household formation and dissolution, demand for health and other forms of human capital, fertility and investment in children’s human...

In recent years, there has been a great deal of research activity to study and design systems to assign students to schools. Funded by the ESRC and the Leibniz Association, we are happy to organize a joint workshop with ZEW – Leibniz-Centre for European Economic Research to discuss the latest...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...