The 28th Colloquium on Personnel Economics in 2026 will take place from March 19th to 20th at Erasmus University Rotterdam – Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). For full details, please visit the conference page.
About COPE: The Colloquium on Personnel Economics (COPE) was founded in 1998 by Uschi Backes-Gellner and Matthias Kräkel as an annual conference of German-speaking personnel economists. In 2010, COPE became international, attracting personnel economists from all over the world. Each year, COPE brings together around 80-100 personnel economists to discuss 60-70 papers in a constructive atmosphere and is particularly attractive to young researchers who are given the opportunity to present their work at a relatively early stage and receive constructive feedback from other researchers in the field.
As of 2022, the COPE standing scientific committee consists of the following five members:
| Uschi Backes-Gellner | University of Zurich, Switzerland | since 1998 |
| Oliver Fabel | University of Vienna, Austria | since 2003 |
| Kerstin Pull | University of Tübingen; Germany | since 2007 |
| Alex Bryson | University College London, UK | since 2016 |
| Anders Frederiksen | Aarhus University, Denmark | since 2022 |
Celebrating 20 Years of COPE (PDF)
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