How does a crisis affect people’s behavior? One crisis follows another: financial crises, the European migrant crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, an energy crisis, and, of course, the climate crisis that has been looming for decades. Do individuals adjust their behavior to...

Jan-Egbert Sturm von der Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF der ETH Zürich und Marius Brülhart der University Lausanne sind die diesjährigen Redner.

Researchers with an interest in political economy (the interface between economics and politics) are invited to submit papers for the 2019 Silvaplana workshop. Papers can be theoretical and/or empirical. The primary criterion is that papers be judged interesting by the program committee. The...

Non-selfish behavior has been documented in many experiments. However, our understanding of many facets of pro- as well as anti-social behavior is still incomplete. We invite exciting new contributions on social behavior from fields like economics, psychology, political sciences, anthropology or...

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...

The workshop has the aim of bringing together high quality papers that deal with (i) wage dispersion and inequality; (ii) worker heterogeneity and mismatch unemployment; (iii) labor market policy. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome.

Group identity shapes the behavior of people. It can foster both cooperation within the group and competition with outsiders. However, we also observe conflicts within groups and cooperation between groups. Various group characteristics and institutions moderate these effects. For this workshop...

The workshop has the aim of bringing together high quality papers that deal with wage dispersion and inequality over the business cycle; worker reallocation and mismatch unemployment; and firm dynamics, job creation and job destruction.

The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate research in the search and matching literature and to bring together high-profile researchers with younger colleagues. The work presented at the workshop should cover theoretical as well as empirical contributions to the search literature. Given the...