Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

"The purpose of the Forum is to promote the discussion of frontier research on empirical and theoretical issues in international finance, banking and macroeconomics, with a special eye on the relevance for monetary policy. In the wake of financial crises in Europe, the United States and...

Die Themen Arbeitszeitpolitik und Arbeitszeitrecht erleben derzeit eine Renaissance. Fragen wie Work-Life-Balance und Entgrenzung von Arbeit werden sowohl in der Politik als auch in den Betrieben und Unternehmen diskutiert. Viele Arbeitgeber entdecken unter dem Vorzeichen des sich abzeichnenden...

In the past 200 years, the world has experienced unprecedented economic development as well as profound demographic changes. Many dimensions of these dynamic processes are not well understood. What are the underlying forces behind the different dimensions of economic and demographic development,...

Issues to be addressed include: What is special about the public sector? Public sector efficiency. Public debt sustainability. Changes in the role and size of public sector. Incentives in the public sector. Tax-spending mix. Optimal public policy. Delay of reforms. Rent seeking, tax evasion and...

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...

Behavioural political economy uses behavioural concepts in explaining decisions of politicians, candidates for political office, voters, lobbyists, and others in the political and policymaking arena. Decision-makers may be subject to bounded rationality. Utility maximisation may be based on...

Subsidies to fossil energies are largely wasteful as they serve to increase carbon emissions, weaken public budgets and importers’ energy security, and in most cases impact income distribution adversely. Reform of energy subsidy policies is sorely needed in many countries, and is an important...

Die Bedeutung internationaler Arbeitsstandards in multi- bzw. transnational agierenden Unternehmen hat im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung stark zugenommen. Die zwischen der EU und den USA begonnenen Verhandlungen zum Transnationalen Freihandelsabkommen (TTIP) werden aller Voraussicht...

Auf der Fachtagung werden Forschungsergebnisse vorgestellt, die die deutsche Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik aus einer internationalen Perspektive kritisch beleuchten. Ziel ist es, über eine Bestandsaufnahme hinauszugehen und Gestaltungsansätze für eine lebenslauforientierte Politik mit...