CefES Research Center

High-standard research center at the University of Milano-Bicocca advancing the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the European economy.

[Silvia Marchesi @SilviaMarches12]

The program for the 8th International Conference on European Economics and Politics (@CefesCenter) is now available.

📍 ETH Zurich
📅 14–15 July 2026

Keynote speakers: Lint Barrage and @dominic_rohner

Program:
https://t.co/ETILwZ3ROo
#EconTwitter #Economics #PoliticalEconomy

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

What happened after the USAID shutdown?

New GODAD working paper by Marcella Nicolini & Fabio Sabatini: exposed African regions saw falling nightlights and rising acute food insecurity, especially where vulnerability was high and institutions weaker.

https://t.co/9I9M809DHm

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

The Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD) invites submissions to its new working paper series. If you have a paper using sub-national aid data, let us know. First contributions by Jimmy Graham, Andrea Fazio, Marcella Nicolini, ...: https://t.co/MRSrKO6giY

[CefES Research Center @CefesCenter]

⌛️Only a few days left to submit your paper for the 8th International Conference on European Economics and Politics!

Deadline: 15 April

Please submit full papers via our online submission form: https://t.co/K9Bv0m2m0D

For more information: https://t.co/0rz4hIFm92

[CefES Research Center @CefesCenter]

📢 Call for Papers 👇

8th Annual Conference on European Economics and Politics, @KOFETH_en, @unimib, @cepr

📍 Hosted by KOF-ETH Zurich

📅 July 14–15, 2026

💡 Keynote speakers:

Lint Barrage (ETH Zurich and CEPR)
Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR)

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (@The_PEIO) at the University of Texas at Austin, January 7-9, 2027. Submission is now open at https://t.co/mYLc0YKfI8. Thanks Terry Chapman, Dan Nielson, @goodhouses, @NateMJensen for hosting!

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

Check out the papers of the 18th PEIO (@The_PEIO, IE University) at https://t.co/DpE6h41zaY. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, on January 7-9, 2027. Thanks to Dan Nielson et al. for hosting us! @goodhouses, @NateMJensen

[CefES Research Center @CefesCenter]

📢 Call for Papers 👇

8th Annual Conference on European Economics and Politics, @KOFETH_en, @unimib, @cepr

📍 Hosted by KOF-ETH Zurich

📅 July 14–15, 2026

💡 Keynote speakers:

Lint Barrage (ETH Zurich and CEPR)
Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute and CEPR)

[CEPR @cepr_org]

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21003
Financial Market Effects of FOMC Communication: Evidence from a New Event-Study Database
@migacosta, Andrea Ajello @federalreserve, @michaelbauer_hh, Francesca Loria @federalreserve, @_SiLviA_mA
https://t.co/caRog9gEwS
#CEPR_MEF #EconTwitter

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

Program and papers for the 18th PEIO (@The_PEIO, IE University, Jan 29-31) are now online at https://t.co/DpE6h4270w. Thanks to Zoe Ge, Nikitas Konstantinidis and Irene Menéndez González for hosting us! @ZoeGe37 @nikkon7 @IEuniversity

[Jonas Tallberg @JonasTallberg]

New special issue of @The_PEIO on "Public Opinion and International Organizations." In the introduction, we map the field, place the SI papers & identify ways forward: https://t.co/8ZxZw6EFZI. 🙏@DreherAxel, all reviewers, and the SI contributors!

[Sabrina Arias @sabrinabarias]

As the US steps back from leading in global governance institutions, China has increasingly stepped into leadership roles, serving as head of WHO, FAO, and other important UN agencies in recent years. In new (open access!) work with @rachelhulvey in @The_PEIO, we ask: why? 1/5

[Yu Wang @y1w3politics]

We are releasing the 2024 version of our dataset in "China Visits: a Dataset of Chinese Leaders' Foreign Visits"
@The_PEIO .

The dataset should be useful to scholars in #InternationalRelations #InternationalPoliticalEconomy

Harvard Dataverse: https://t.co/jd75DffOuG

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

Another call for better aid reporting. Axel Dreher says we should distinguish & report separately on:

1. Humanitarian aid
2. Global public goods
3. Development aid

https://t.co/uwXhyF1hNp

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

Deadline for PEIO 2026: September 30.

[Axel Dreher @DreherAxel]

Some of my thoughts on how to reform foreign aid in @ChinaDaily: https://t.co/dn18XlwCbR (uncensored version here: https://t.co/DhSiVNTM3p)

[VoxEU @voxeu]

When aid kills: How foreign assistance can fuel political violence
@DreherAxel, Jingke Pan @UniHeidelberg, Christina Schneider @UCSanDiego @UCSDEcon
https://t.co/VkhzR0Pb12

[CEPR @cepr_org]

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20389
Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence
@DreherAxel @UniHeidelberg @KOFETH_en, Jingke Pan @UniHeidelberg, Christina Schneider @UCSanDiego
https://t.co/uvzvZfaqiP
#CEPR_DE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

[Silvia Marchesi @SilviaMarches12]

📢 DEADLINE TOMORROW
12–13 June 2025, Milan
We invite submissions for the 7th Annual CefES Conference, hosted by @CefesCenter, @unimib
📝 Submission deadline: April 10
📬 Notification of acceptance: April 25
🔗 Submit your paper here: 👇🏻
https://t.co/RwfCTlXZHO
#CefES

[Nicola Coniglio @NDConiglio]

Submitting your paper to the 15th edition of #EconomicsOfGlobalInteractions, this year September 8-9. Keynote speakers: Paola Conconi (Oxford) and Axel Dreher (Heidelberg). Deadline for submissions: May 25. @rjhagen @KBjorvatn https://t.co/ALbMeHnInK

[CefES Research Center @CefesCenter]

🚨 Hurry up!
Paper submission deadline is approaching!
Please submit your paper by 10 April 👉 https://t.co/EIx2UvY225

[CefES Research Center @CefesCenter]

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!

The 7th International Conference on European Economics and Politics

👉 https://t.co/slxzeli1e6
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 April 2025

@unimib @dems_unimib @LSEEI @KOFETH_en @EU_ScienceHub @EUI_Schuman @BlestBocconi @iep_bu

#CefESconf2025 #EconTwitter