Pension reforms top the political agenda across the OECD countries. Increases in life expectancy, decline in fertility, a reduced labor force participation, rising instabilities in working careers, and the impending retirement of the baby boom generation create pressures to cut benefits,...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad...

Agra Europe’s 14th Annual European Dairy Markets Conference looks at the European dairy sector as it undergoes major change in the face of policy reform. With margins on milk constantly being squeezed, the conference looks at ways in which the industry can maintain and enhance...

The Financial Markets Group is organising a conference on, on the occasion of the recent publication of the first report of the Pensions Commission. Following the Pensions Commission’s invitation to comment on issues raised in the report, we would like to bring together a small group of...

The meetings will cover most any topic in economics and finance as well as most interrelated subject matter. As in the past years, The Academy will again offer a Teacher Training Program (TTP). This unique program explores and encourages different teaching methodologies and techniques. All...

Just two days after his reelection, President Bush announced that Social Security reform would be a top priority for his second term. The president’s commitment to tackling the "third rail of American politics" promises to be one of the most important domestic policy debates of...

New York agricultural leaders learn about the short- and long-term outlook for agriculture and agricultural products. Breakout sessions concentrate on dairy and horticultural products.

The two conferences will deal with the microeconomic incentives, macroeconomic implications, and political sustainability of intergenerational transfers, on the one hand, and the transitional costs and macroeconomic implications of funded systems of retirement savings, on the other.

The conference will focus on the distributional consequences of the public sector. Although our main interest is in the effects on personal distribution, i.e., on families and individuals, we are also interested in the relationship between the public sector and functional distribution of...