The CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society brings together leading researchers working on the economics of media, digital technology, and political economy. Held every summer in Italy, it has become one of the field’s central annual gatherings — a small, intensive meeting where each paper receives a full discussion.
The workshop was co-founded in 2022 by Alexey Makarin (MIT) and Andrea Prat (Columbia University) at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome and is organized under the auspices of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). It alternates between Rome (EIEF) and Milan (Bocconi University), with local organization led by the host institution each year.
Past Editions
June 25–26 · 13 papers
2025 Third Edition Bocconi University, MilanJune 23–24 · 13 papers
2023 Second Edition EIEF, RomeJune 26–27 · 16 papers · 2 keynotes
2022 First Edition EIEF, RomeJune 24–25 · 11 papers · 2 keynotes · policy round table
About the Format
The program is deliberately small — roughly a dozen papers over two days, selected from a large pool of submissions by the workshop's scientific committee. Every paper is allocated a long slot (50 minutes in recent editions) with a prepared discussant, in the tradition of NBER-style meetings. Early editions also featured keynote lectures and a policy round table with European media regulators.