Scottish Economic Society

The 2026 conference marks a particularly special occasion as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations—a milestone in the history of economic thought!

Final call for papers for the Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, to be held from 13–15 April 2026 at the University of Glasgow.

The deadline is 4 November 2025. #EconSky

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Scottish Journal of Political Economy: Vol 72, No 5 Click on the title to browse this issue

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Electricity Use of Automation or How to Tax Robots? While automation technologies replace workers in ever more tasks, robots, 3D-printers, and AI require substantial amounts of electricity. How are automation technologies affected by the price of elec...

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Industrial Structure and Economic Performance: Macroeconomic Implications of Consumption and Leisure Externalities This paper develops a monopolistic competition macroeconomic model with consumption externalities and leisure externalities, and uses it to discuss economic performance under both vertical separation...

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Debating the Bundeswehr We use Natural Language Processing methods to analyze the part of the debates in the Bundestag, the German parliament, about the German military (Bundeswehr). Estimated local projections show that an...

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The Effect of Physical Disability on Employment The relationship between physical disability and employment is explored using microdata for older working-age women in the 2016 Irish Census of Population and historical data on the incidence of infe....

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Political Geography and Stock Market Volatility: The Role of Political Alignment Across Sentiment Regimes We study the nexus between political geography and stock market volatility by examining the interrelation between political geography and the predictive relation between the state- and aggregate-leve...

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Elite Capture or Exclusion? Insights From China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy This paper investigates the role of political elites in China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program using data from the 2017 Thousand-Person Hundred-Village (TPHV) survey. The findings reveal ...

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Mandatory Corporate Responsibility Regulation, Geopolitical Risk, and Firm Performance: Evidence From India This study investigates whether a mandated requirement to spend on social welfare activities amplifies the impact of Geopolitical Risk (GPR) on firm performance. To explore this question, we exploit ...

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Corruption Kills: Global Evidence From Natural Disasters This study examines the relationship between corruption and natural disaster-related fatalities using panel data from 135 countries spanning the period 1980 to 2020. The empirical analysis reveals ro...

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A DSGE Analysis of Asymmetric Monetary Policy Transmission in China This paper analyzes the asymmetric transmission of monetary policy between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately owned enterprises (POEs) in China by developing a DSGE model that incorporates ...

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A Violent Win: How Conflict Affects Political Competition in India In this paper, we study the impact of group violence around elections on political competition, using administrative electoral data and geocoded data on violent events from India. Our identification ...

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