This workshop will focus on how governments set fiscal policy in the presence of mobile agents and how these agents respond. The workshop will feature both theoretical and empirical papers and welcomes papers containing both approaches. A goal of the workshop is to facilitate interactions...

The aim of this workshop is to discuss empirical and theoretical approaches that investigate the effects of regional policies and to learn more about the underlying mechanisms and consequences. Beyond those topics, the workshop should serve as a platform to address more broadly local public...

The military conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, the terrorist threat and the deterioration of international relationships, but also trade wars and other less violent forms of international conflict remind us of the continues role of conflict in the international...

Household-level data on consumption expenditure underpin key policy questions, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, including monetary policy, tax policy, social security, and their relation to consumption, savings, and inequality. While the measurement of consumer expenditures at the household...

Economic performance in the euro area has been very heterogeneous since 2010. Intra euro-area real exchange rates, however, have not adjusted very much during the last six years. This is arguably a major cause of the euro area's current woes. Yet, to date, there is no consensus as to why there...