CESifo's seventeenth Venice Summer Institute, organised in cooperation with Venice International University, will be held from 18 to 23 July 2016, with five workshops dealing with the following topics:

The Economics of Philanthropy (18-19 July 2016)
Organised by Kimberley Ann Scharf and Mirco Tonin, featuring James Andreoni (University of California, San Diego), Dean Karlan (Yale University) and Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh) as keynote speakers. 
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Disrupted Economic Relationships: Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions (18-19 July 2016)
Organised by Tibor Besedeš and Volker Nitsch, and with Gary Clyde Hufbauer (Peterson Institute for International Economics) , Rodney D. Ludema (US Department of State and Georgetown University) and Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics) as keynote speakers.
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Political Economy Aspects of Income (Re-)Distribution (20-21 July 2016)
Organised by Jan-Egbert Sturm and featuring Tim Besley (London School of Economics (tentative)) and Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics) as keynote speakers.
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 The Economics of Peace and War (20-21 July 2016)
Organised by Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara, featuring Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance) and David Jaeger (City University of New York) as keynote speakers.
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Climate Change and Migration (22-23 July 2016)
Organised by Michael Berlemann and Max Steinhardt, with Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg) and Ilan Noy (Victoria University Wellington) as keynote speakers.
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The deadline for paper submissions is 22 December 2015.

IWAEE - Call for Papers

The 7th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education will be held in Catanzaro, Italy from 19 to 21 July 2016.

Keynote Speakers will be Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario), Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam) and Jacob Vigdor (University of Washington).

Full papers or extanded abstracts can be submitted on the workshop website no later than 1 March 2016.

For further details check out the website or contact Giuseppe Migali.

Research Master in Neuroeconomics - Open for Applications

The Research Master in Neuroeconomics at Maastricht University is again open for applications. The next program starts in September 2016.

The Research Master in Neuroeconomics is a two-year, selective, internationally oriented and English taught program designed for excellent students who wish to continue their graduate studies in preparation for a career in research.

The program is jointly organized by the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) and the Economics Departments of the School of Business and Economics (SBE).

Deadline for applications is 14 January 2016 (for scholarships and first round) and 31 March 2016 (second round).

More detailed information can be found on the website. For a brief overview you can also watch this movie.