The digital revolution is gradually changing our daily life, as well as the economy. The Digital Economy Summer School will deal with some of the challenges that regulators and policy makers face due to this technological revolution. The program targets advanced undergraduate and graduate...

The contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic prosperity has grown exponentially in recent years with the shift of development economies towards knowledge-based societies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Funding new ideas, Entrepreneurial finance, Venture...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the implications of the rise of intangible technologies. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between the rise of intangibles, firm dynamics, and industry-level and aggregate outcome. We...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

Entrepreneurship is making a dramatic comeback in economics and management as a wellspring of industrial dynamism, innovation, and wealth creation. Despite early contributions by scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight, or William Baumol, entrepreneurship has only recently surfaced as a...

The workshop will bring together researchers that study how different contexts of social interactions (preferences, cognitive skills, personality, institution, culture, etc.) or institutions affect the possibility of solving or mitigating coordination problems. We are regularly checking safety...

Barcelona Summer School 2020 has been cancelled.

The Digital Economy Summer School will deal with some of the challenges that regulators and policy makers face due to this technological revolution. The program targets advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners that want to understand how the so-called new...

We welcome empirical and theoretical submissions of frontier research in all of the current topics of this field. We invite submissions from experienced researchers as well as promising young scholars in the field. Topics: Relational contracts; Theory of the Firm; Incomplete Contracts; Internal...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...