October 31, 2017 is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of the 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church; an episode that has been considered the beginning of the protestant reform. Sombart, Weber, Bataille and many others have underlined the crucial role of Luther and the...

The aim of the workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of various themes concerning social norms in multi-ethnic societies. Social norms attract wide interest in many fields of social sciences, and appear to be highly relevant in societies that include groups having...

Conference Program: Pre-conference Workshop in cooperation with ICABR "The Green Revolution in Africa" - First Session Alexander Sarris "Food Security in Africa" - Second Session Luigi Mennella "Which perspective for Africa: Economic and Social Dimensions", Giovanni Andrea Cornia "The African...

Topics: - Public goods, externalities and pro-social behaviour, - Welfare economics without revealed preferences, - Taxation and behavioral economics, - Neo-utilitarianism and happiness research: measures and implications for public intervention, - Social preferences, moral behaviour and...

The aim of the school is to present the instruments for a scientific analysis of voting systems. It is oriented to PhD students, post-doc, and young scholars. It has a distinguished interdisciplinary flavour, with speakers whose experiences come from Mathematics, Economics, and Political Science.

The International Conference on Sustainable Development is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global-scale context. The Conference theme is: "Creating a unified foundation for the...

The military conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, the terrorist threat and the deterioration of international relationships, but also trade wars and other less violent forms of international conflict remind us of the continues role of conflict in the international...

Topics: - Learning and bounded rationality - Networks - Information aggregation and transmission - Privacy and mechanism design - Large games - Algorithmic game theory - Congestion games and queues - Stochastic and dynamic games The speakers will be scholars in different fields: stochastics,...

The Alpine Population Conference (Alp-Pop) brings together scholars interested in population issues across several disciplines, including demography, economics, epidemiology, political science, sociology, and psychology. The conference emphasizes empirical rigor and innovation over a given topic...