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In 2026, CES honors another internationally outstanding economist, Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, as its Distinguished CES Fellow. 

Edward Glaeser will deliver the 2026 Munich Lecture on "Turning Abundance into Scarcity: Regulation, Housing Costs and Infrastructure Failures".

Details: 
Thursday, 19 November (6pm)
LMU Munich (Große Aula) 
The program is available on the CES webpage

The Munich Lectures Workshop is held in conjunction with the 2026 Munich Lectures in Economics, in honor of the 2026 Distinguished CES Fellow, Professor Edward Glaeser. 

During his visit at CESifo, Nicolas Bottan will focus on a new research agenda examining how people understand the economic consequences of artificial intelligence and how that understanding shapes their policy preferences.

Mr. Bottan is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of behavioral, public, and development economics. His research studies how beliefs and social context shape economic decisions and what this implies for the design of public policy.

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is internationally recognized for his economic analysis of educational issues, and his research has had broad influence on education policy in both developed and developing countries.

Professor Hanushek is also a research professor at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education and area director of the Economics of Education group in the CESifo Research Network.

During his visit to CESifo, Stephan Heblich plans to investigate the local economic consequences of planned investments in battery manufacturing together with Oliver Falck. These projects are central to industrial strategies supporting the energy transition, but their effects on host regions are not straightforward. 

His research looks at spatial disparities in the distribution of consumptive or productive amenities that attract individuals or firms.

The 2027 Venice Summer Institute will take place on the island of San Servolo from 28 June - 1 July 2027. 

The call for papers is now open unil 18 January 2027 (23:59 Central European Time). 

The 4th Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education will bring together leading junior researchers in the economics of education to discuss their research and to encourage broader international interactions. 
Scientific Organizers: Caterina Pavese, Maddalena Totarelli, Ludger Woessmann. Keynote Speaker: Joshua Goodman, Boston University.
The Call for Paper is now open until 8 February 2027. 

The CESifo Working Paper Series offers a wide range of economic research across diverse topics. Here are the papers that recently garnered the most attention, based on download figures.

Administrative capacity is just as relevant as policy design, as administrative quality mediates policy impact. This is particularly true of municipalities, which account for a vast portion of public investment aimed at achieving the EU’s strategic objectives. The new Forum issue focuses on implementation rather than policymaking. It examines ways to facilitate access to grants and improve the awarding of tenders, and it looks at how administrative capacity can be expanded through managerial practices, targeted monitoring, and know-how transfer.