The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Households in Conflict Network (HICN) are organizing an international workshop to bring together researchers from different social sciences and countries sharing a common interest in studying the connections between...

The workshop will present research in the field of income (re-)distribution with a political economy focus. In recent years, a substantial amount of political and academic attention has been given to the topic of income (re-)distribution. Despite this broad attention, political economy...

We welcome economic or econometric contributions on the following and related issues: - National safety as a public good - Strategic behavior and credible commitments (initiated by Thomas Schelling) - The theory of conflicts (initiated by Gordon Tullock, Jack Hirshleifer and Kai Konrad) - Theory...

Topics: 1. The Eurozone Crises. The Lackluster Growth and the Stagnation Hypothesis; 2. Rebooting Eurozone, Creating a Common Fiscal Space and Ensuring Euro’s Survival; 3. The Competitiveness Challenge: Deepening and Relaunching Single Market; 4. Unemployment and the Growing Intergenerational...