Program: - “Too Crooked to be Good: Tradeoffs and the Punishment of Malfeasance”, Sofia Breitenstein & Enrique Hernández; - “Social Capital, Corruption and Accountability. Evidence from the Spanish municipalities”, Jordi Muñoz & Pilar Sorribas-Navarro; - “The Fingerprints of Fraud:...

We encourage the submission of empirical and theoretical papers from economics and political science. The workshop will run for two days and feature ten to twelve papers, including invited presentations. Each presentation will last for an hour, including comments from a discussant and the...

The workshop aims at creating an annual European meeting of top researchers in political economy within the framework of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. We encourage the submission of empirical and theoretical papers from economics and political science.

The recent economic crisis has posed important challenges to the political institutions and public finances of developed and developing countries. These challenges have motivated scholars to study both the political determinants and consequences of these recent events. The aim of this workshop...