5th PhD-Student Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE), Call for Papers

The Research Centre on Industrial and Public Economics (CREIP), created in 2010, is a center located at the Economics Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The CREIP focuses on two areas of economic analysis, Industrial Organization and Public Economics, and has a team of over thirty researchers from various areas.

The CREIP will host the 5th PhD-Student Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) in Reus (Catalonia, Spain) on 8-9 February 2017. WIPE aims to be an academic meeting where PhD students, young doctors, postdoc researchers and senior researchers could exchange experiences, research topics, ongoing projects and future research activities on the Industrial and Public Economics.
WIPE will include about 16 presentations and plenary sessions with one keynote speaker (Luís Cabral, New York University). Papers to be presented must fit into topics of Industrial and Public Economics like, among others, Environmental Economics, Regional Economics, and Markets and Institutions. There are not workshop fees, but attendants should cover their own travel and accommodation expenditures.

Local Organizing Committee

Bernd Theilen (CREIP-URV), Ricardo Flores-FIllol (CREIP-URV), and Eulàlia Torner (CREIP’s staff).

Scientific Committee

Ricardo Flores-FIllol (CREIP-URV), José Manuel Giménez-Gómez (CREIP-URV), António Osório (CREIP-URV), Mercedes Teruel (CREIP-URV), Bernd Theilen (CREIP-URV), and Cori Vilella (CREIP-URV).

Paper Submission Procedure

Extended Abstracts of proposed papers (between 500 and 1,000 words) should be submitted electronically in PDF format by emailing to creip@urv.cat by 25th November 2016, along with the name, affiliation and contact details of the author(s). The deadline for notification of acceptance of abstracts is by 16th December 2016.

Full Papers (in the region of 8,000 words) of accepted abstracts should be submitted in Word or PDF format by 13th January 2017 to be included in the final workshop program. The front page of the document should include the title, authors, affiliations, contact details, and a short abstract.