The Economics of Corporate Social Responsibility

MINES ParisTech, the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, the Paris School of Economics jointly organize an academic conference on the economics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on 9-10 June in Paris. The conference is open to all interested researchers in the economic analysis of CSR practices and concepts. CSR means socially and environmentally friendly actions not required by law, going beyond compliance, privately providing public goods, or voluntarily internalizing externalities. It is an important economic phenomenon with broad implications for firms, employees, consumers, investors, governments and NGOs alike. The conference will include both theoretical and empirical papers in industrial organization, behavioural economics, contract theory, political economy, environmental and resource economics, labour economics, public economics, or financial economics.

David Baron from Stanford University will give a keynote lecture on the economics of CSR.