Conference Notes on the 2025 International Conference on Applied Economics and Political Economy (ICAEPE 2025)

Abstract

The International Conference on Applied Economics and Political Economy (ICAEPE 2025), held in Vienna on May 14–17, 2025, brought together scholars, policymakers, development agencies, and research institutions working at the intersection of economics and political economy. The 2025 edition of the conference distinguished itself through its comprehensive analytical scope, strong empirical orientation, and its highly interdisciplinary engagement with global political-economic transformations. The conference published both an Abstract Book and a Proceedings Book, providing an extensive record of the empirical studies, conceptual debates, and policy dialogues presented over the four-day event. This set of conference notes synthesizes the key intellectual contributions, methodological innovations, and policy implications of ICAEPE 2025, highlighting sessions most relevant to Journal of Economics and Political Economy—particularly macroeconomic governance, institutional analysis, global economic restructuring, inequality, political institutions, geoeconomics, and public policy evaluation.

Keywords. Political Economy of Global Polycrisis; Macroeconomic Governance and Institutions; Geoeconomic Fragmentation and Trade Restructuring; State Capacity, Development, and Inequality; Economic Policy, Democracy, and Institutional Quality.

JEL. E02; F50; H60; O43; P16.