Goal of the conference is to gain feedback from experts and policymakers on draft policy notes outlining practical options for reforming environmental policies in Europe, and research needs to help improve policy design and evaluation. The focus will be on fiscal and regulatory policies...

Die mit vielen Hoffnungen verbundene grosse Mehrwertsteuerreform ist nur zu einem, wenn auch nicht unwesentlichen Teil umgesetzt worden. Was vom seinerzeitigen Elan übrig geblieben ist, reicht für eine kleine Revision des Mehrwertsteuergesetzes (MWSTG). Damit sollen auch gewisse...

Mit dem vor drei Jahren in Kraft getretenen neuen Mehrwertsteuergesetz (MWSTG) sind grundlegende Änderungen eingeführt worden, deren Umsetzung in der Praxis nach wie vor Schwierigkeiten bereiten und für welche noch keine abschliessend definierte Verwaltungspraxis besteht. Dies betrifft...

The following non-exhaustive list of topics would be particular welcome: - Theoretical and empirical analysis of taxes on the financial sector - Analysis of interactions and trade-offs between regulation and taxation - Effects of financial sector taxation on the macro economy and financial...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

By invitation only.

Climate change is one of the greatest collective action problems facing the international community. The fiscal implications of climate change are, arguably, immediate, lasting, and they are liable to affect all countries, albeit in rather different forms and degrees. The aim of this conference...

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...

The tax systems of developing countries differ considerably from those of developed countries. Revenue raised as a percentage of GDP is smaller than in developed countries and tax structures also differ considerably. The workshop is intended to bring together researchers working in this field to...

All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of employment and social protection. Both domains are to be broadly defined, the former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in...