The WorldPensionSummit is the platform "for and by" pension professionals and industry leaders, exchanging knowledge and sharing the latest insights on securing sufficient pension provision.

This pension day is targeted mainly (though not exclusively) at junior Netspar researchers. However, all Netspar researchers, including those who have not had an opportunity to present their Netspar research at recent Netspar workshops, are also encouraged to submit their paper(s).

Angesichts der andauernden Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise stellt der Sozialstaat mit seinen Institutionen ein stabilisierendes Element dar, wird aber gleichzeitig durch eine schwindende Einnahmebasis geschwächt. Politische Akteure stehen vor der Herausforderung, den Sozialstaat mit seinem...

Ambiguity is pervasive in the economy and widely discussed in the economic science. It plays a role at all levels of economic decision-making, starting with individual choices, and extending up to the way institutions and cultures respond to the less than perfectly quantifiable uncertainty of...

The debate about an unconditional basic income has attracted public attention in a number of countries in recent years. Financial, debt, and ecological crises are causing growing numbers of people to look for political alternatives to the existing economy and the way income is distributed within...

The Summer School will be held by two leading economists in the field, Professor Leonardo Felli, LSE, and Professor Christian Zehnder, Université de Lausanne. The school is targeted to Ph.D. students and young post-docs as well as assistant professors. Its major purpose is to provide a coherent...

The IMPRS Uncertainty Summer School aims at stimulating the scientific discourse on decision making under uncertainty between economists, psychologists and legal scholars. The themes of the 2 x 12 crash courses are - methodological (statistics for grad students – basic and advanced; empirical...

This year’s topics include: foundations of innovative behaviour, entrepreneurship, measurement of innovation, innovation in finance, empirical methods and modelling, experimental economics, development economics, network analysis, and climate economics.

The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality 2012 will have a focus on decision making in the wild. Formal decision making theory is an abstact construct of great internal coherence which however often lacks correspondence to real world problems. In contrast, the study bounded rationality focuses...

We invite PhD students with projects that deal with issues on or related to the Summer School theme to apply for participation. We value a multi-disciplinary setting and welcome students from a range of academic disciplines, like sociology, economy, law, political science and (European) social...