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CIVICA Liability & AI Regulation (CLAIR) Workshop

We kindly invite you to participate in the CIVICA Liability & AI Regulation (CLAIR) Workshop, which will take place on 1–2 December 2025 at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). The event is organized in partnership with the Polish Association of Law and Economics (PSEAP).

The CLAIR Workshop is an interdisciplinary event co-organised by Warsaw School of Economics, Bocconi University, EUI, and Stockholm School of Economics within the CIVICA European University Alliance, bringing together legal scholars, economists, policymakers, behavioural scientists, and industry experts to explore the evolving landscape of AI liability regulation in the European Union.

Despite the withdrawal of the AI Liability Directive (AILD), momentum for debating about challenges of AI liability remains strong. This workshop aims to provide evidence-based foundations for the ex-post supervision of AI in the EU, addressing misinformation in the innovation debate and discussing how to strike the right balance between innovation and accountability.

The organizers warmly welcome submissions of abstracts (max. 500 words), extended abstracts, or full papers engaging with these themes.

Please submit your contribution by 31 October 2025 via this form: https://forms.gle/7ygqzNj7LL3MdoBC7

The workshop will feature keynote lectures by:
• Jan De Bruyne (KU Leuven)
• Beatriz Botero Arcila (Sciences Po)

Published proceedings will follow the event, contributing to the broader debate on systemic AI regulation in Europe.

For questions or further details, please contact the organizers at: clairworkshop@sgh.waw.pl

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CEAPS Seminar

We are pleased to invite you to the first meeting of the second season of the CEAPS seminar series at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw (WNE UW). This series hosts distinguished international scholars working at the intersection of economics, law, and political science.

Episode 1: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 5:00 PM, Room A409

Speaker: Raphaël Franck (University of Stuttgart, CEPR, CESifo & GLO)

Topic: “Safety Last? Political Supervision of Bureaucratic Performance and Worker Safety in French Mines during the Industrial Revolution”

About the speaker: Raphaël Franck is a professor at the Institute of Economics and Law at the University of Stuttgart, a member of CEPR, and President of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS). His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Econometrica, The Economic Journal, American Political Science Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His work focuses primarily on political economy and macroeconomics.

The CEAPS seminar series is held primarily in person, but those interested in attending online via Zoom are kindly asked to register by October 20, 2025, by emailing kmetelska@wne.uw.edu.pl.

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Research Seminar on “Fairness in Digital Contract Law: European and Global Comparative Perspectives”

We kindly inform about a research seminar on ‘Fairness in Digital Contract Law: European and Global Comparative Perspectives,’ to be held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in cooperation with the Polish Association of Law and Economics and the University of Turin’s Department of Law. The event will serve as a platform for critical engagement with the evolving legal framework applicable to digital contracts in Europe (the EU and national law, Switzerland and the UK), North America and the Asia-Pacific Region, on a national, regional and supranational level.

Abstracts of up to 1,500 words (excluding bibliography) should be submitted by 26 September 2025 to piotr.tereszkiewicz@uj.edu.pl and przemyslaw1.palka@uj.edu.pl.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 3 October 2025.

Details can be found in the Call for Papers.

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CEAPS seminar – prof. Jerg Gutmann

We warmly invite you to a CEAPS seminar will be held on Thursday (22.5.2025), with a presentation by Prof. Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg). The title of the presentation is “Can public data protection regimes mitigate users’ privacy concerns about AI? Evidence from a survey experiment”. 

The seminar will take place at 17:00 in room B002 (Faculty of Economic Sciences).

Abstract: We examine the trade-off between functionality and data privacy inherent in many AI products by conducting a randomized survey experiment with 1,734 participants from the US and several European countries. Participants’ willingness to adopt a hypothetical,  AI-enhanced app is measured under three sets of treatments: (i) installation defaults (opt-in vs. opt-out), (ii) salience of data privacy risks, and (iii) regulatory regimes with different levels of data protection. In addition, we study how the willingness to adopt depends on individual attitudes and preferences. We find no effect of defaults or salience, while a regulatory regime with stricter privacy protection increases the likelihood that the app is adopted. Finally, greater data privacy concerns, greater risk aversion, lower levels of trust, and greater skepticism toward AI are associated with a significantly lower willingness to adopt the app.

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PSEAP Seminar – dr Matej Lotko

We warmly invite you to a research seminar featuring Dr Matej Lorko. The seminar will take place on Wednesday, 7 May at 5:00 p.m. in Room A409 of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw building.

You can find the speaker’s profile here: https://lorko.sk/bio/.

Please see below for the title and abstract of the presentation.

Title: Coordination on altruistic market with imperfect substitutes

Abstract: Charitable gifts and volunteering deliver enormous value in areas where neither the government, nor the commercial sector is sufficiently active. However, altruistic markets often develop severe inefficiencies due to miscoordination of volunteers. In this paper, we focus on two coordination failures which result in wasted volunteering labor and resources, and/or losses in recipient welfare, namely (1) oversupply of a single altruistic good and (2) ineffective allocation of volunteers across multiple altruistic goods. We conduct a laboratory experiment, in which participants in a group of four are independently deciding whether to provide a costly help to a charity or not. The baseline condition involves a single (high-priority) altruistic good with a restricted demand. While all those how decide to help incur a cost, only one unit of help generates a benefit for the recipient. In other conditions, we add a second (low-priority) altruistic good with unrestricted demand but lower recipient benefit. All conditions involve a within-subject treatment manipulation – we introduce a coordination device which informs those who decided to provide a high-priority good of whether the demand for this good was already met or not. We find that the coordination device significantly improves the efficiency of the altruistic market in all conditions. Specifically, in the baseline condition, the device decreases the supply of high-priority good (and thus eliminates its oversupply), while in the other conditions, the device increases the supply of high-priority good (and thus eliminates its undersupply) by effectively reallocating volunteers across the two goods.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The 11th Congress of Polish Economists

XI Congress of Polish Economists under the theme “Economics and Economy in Times of Uncertainty” will take place on December 4-5, 2025, in Poznań. The Congress will also be combined with the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Polish Economic Society.

Detailed information and the registration form are available on the event’s website: https://kongres2025.pte.pl/en/xi-kongres-ekonomistow-polskich-english/.

To submit a presentation proposal for the Congress, participants must upload the full text of their paper to the Congress conference system by June 6, 2025. Details and the Call for Papers can be found at: https://kongres2025.pte.pl/en/rejestracja-logowanie-2/.

 

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CEAPS Seminar – prof. Rok Spruk from the Univeristy of Ljubljana

We would like to invite you to a scientific seminar co-organized by the Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector and Warsaw Economic Seminars, which will take place on March 12, 2025, at 5:00 PM in room A409 at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw. During the seminar, Prof. Rok Spruk from the University of Ljubljana will deliver a lecture titled “Political Economy of Judicial Backsliding and Reform: In Search of the Prometheus?”. We encourage you to learn more about the speaker’s biography and the abstract of the lecture via this link.

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Joint seminar of CEAPS and Warsaw Economic Seminars – prof. Artyom Jelnov from Ariel University

We would like to invite you to a scientific seminar co-organized by the Centre for Economic Analyses of Public Sector and Warsaw Economic Seminars, which will take place on January 16, 2025, at 5:00 PM in room A409 at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw. During the seminar, Prof. Artyom Jelnov from Ariel University will deliver a lecture titled “Democratic Backsliding in Times of Crisis”. We encourage you to learn more about the speaker’s biography and the abstract of the lecture via this link.

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Ekonomista Special Issue

This Special Issue invites papers to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Polish Association of Law and Economics (PSEAP – Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ekonomicznej Analizy Prawa). It aims to reflect on the legacy of law and economics by commenting on foundational works and historical developments that have shaped current theories and practices.

The Journal’s submission system will be open for submissions for the Special Issue “20 Years of Law & Economics in Poland” from January 1, 2025 and will close on June 30, 2025. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “20 Years of Law & Economics in Poland, 4/2025”. The issue will be published in December 2025 and its language is English. 

Details of the Special Issue are available on Ekonomista Special Issue – PSEAP.