Keynote lectures will be given by: - Susan Dynarski (Harvard University) - Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) - Sarah Turner (University of Virginia)

Understanding when institutions change, how institutional innovations are propagated and how institutional evolution occurs, are key theoretical and empirical questions that have long shaped institutional research in economics, sociology, politics, history, geography and other disciplines. In...

Critical junctures – such as revolutions and democratic transitions – allow researchers to observe contexts in which key fundamental drivers of institutional change are varying “in real time”. This conference will bring together scholars from political economy, development economics, and...

Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

The relevance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) for the economic growth implies that researchers should help to identify how they can be supported to succeed. One of the weaknesses of many SMEs is the lack of management accounting (MA) and management control (MC) systems. These in...

Topics: - incentives to abide or not by accounting standards; - practices of standard setters, auditors, and accountants; - internal control deficiencies; - accountant professionalization surrounding the fraud concept; - legitimization of standards and best practices; - failure of monitoring...

The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. This conference will also launch the new CEPR POE, the New CEPR Research Programme in Political Economy. A limited number of papers will be...

Topics: - The State and the Family: (Desired and Undesired) Effects of Family Policies ; - How Should We Design Parental Leave Policies? Evidence from Two Reforms in Italy ; - The Effects of Minimum Working Hours: Theory and Evidence ; - Heterogeneous Responses of Productivity to Labor Market...

It is fundamental to analyze what happened in the post-pandemic, pushing researchers to develop novel theories and approaches for a more resilient future. CONFERENCE TRACKS 2022 - Opportunity generation and early business development - Business models (growth, performance), international...

The Covid pandemic has, it is often said, on the one hand changed everything, and on the other, nothing. International travel restrictions, slowdowns in student mobility and lab-based research collaborations unleashed an extraordinary level of innovation enabled largely by the shift to online...