Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. Attendance by registration only.

This event has been cancelled due to the global health crisis. The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America.

There seems to be general agreement that „populism“ has been on the rise over the past decade, and that it has implications for election outcomes and economic policies. There is the notion that pupulist economic policies oriented towards short-term gains at the cost of long-term structural...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

The aim is to analyze topics related to the institutional underpinning of fiscal policies. The workshop focused on research at the intersection of political economy, public finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest included: (i) the political determination of public policies (fiscal and...

Global productivity growth—the key long-term driver of living standards—fell sharply following the global financial crisis and has remained sluggish ever since. This decline has been associated with subpar global economic growth and record-low real interest rates. If sustained, low...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and experience among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision making in the public and private sectors. The conference will cover all areas of modeling applied to monetary, financial, fiscal, energy,...

The aim of the conference is to provide an economic forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context. The Conference will focus on two main challenges for economic policies: - monetary policy normalisation - political economy of fiscal policies.