The Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP) is a non-profit scientific association operating in the Italian Public Finance tradition. Founded in 1988, it has now more than 300 members. Public Economics employs the instruments of modern economic analysis to study the functioning of the public sector as a whole, and of its different components, on the revenue and expenditure side. It also includes public choice and political economic issues. SIEP collaborates with the Italian Society of Economists and with all the other scientific societies that deal with selective features of government intervention by using similar or alternative approaches.
SIEP aims at:
Promoting
Promoting studies, research projects, surveys, using also a multidisciplinary approach, on issues pertaining the public sector
Participating
Participating, through its members, at scientific conferences, in Italy and abroad, promoting the relationships with research institutes, international scientific societies and foreign students of Public Economics;
Organizing
Scientific conferences on public economic issues; in particular the Annual Conference of the Society and, at the same time, the General Assembly of its members, and other intermediate meetings on specific topics;
Favoring
All the projects promoting research activity and the diffusion of knowledge in the field of Public Economics