The Applied Economics Meetings are conferences open to any researcher with an interest in Applied Economics. They are organized jointly by the Asociación Libre de Economía (ALdE) and the Revista de Economía Aplicada (REA). The Meeting gathers more than 200 academics and practitioners on an annual basis covering a wide range of fields in the area of Applied Economics. The central theme of the XV edition of the Meeting will be New Trends in Welfare Analysis. Thus, although papers ranging in any area of Applied Economics are welcomed, authors are encouraged to submit papers across the broad spectrum of theoretical and applied research in welfare analysis. Examples of relevant areas, together with its link to welfare analysis, are (please note this is not an exhaustive list):