The conference brings together leading economic scholars and policy practitioners to discuss cutting-edge research addressing Europe’s economic policy challenges. It is jointly organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and the Joint...

Topics: - Monetary and financial policy to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and support the recovery; - Fiscal policies to support growth, reduce inequality, and address the public debt overhang; - Structural policies to restore confidence and mitigate the negative impact on employment and income...

The webinar will be structured in two parts. Following an introduction by Commissioner Gentiloni, Laurence Boone (OECD) will give a keynote speech on “Tackling the fallout from COVID-19”. A high-level policy panel will then discuss the role of fiscal policy in mitigating the effects of the...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference will be held virtually. Extreme events pose enormous challenges to the global economy, as evidenced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the increased frequency of disasters due to climate change. During such...

The workshop will be a one-day event with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions. The workshop will be structured in two parts. The first session will concentrate on the design of fiscal rules. The second session will focus on how to apply and enforce...

The Program Committee welcomes empirical and theoretical work on topics including, but not limited to: - International spillovers and cooperation in a historical context; - Spillovers in the post-crisis world; - International monetary cooperation at the zero lower bound; - “Currency wars”; -...

The Five Presidents’ Report of 2015 has called for a macroeconomic stabiliser at the EMU level that would be capable of dealing with asymmetric shocks. A European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) is one potential stabilisation mechanism, although other proposals for devising risk-sharing...

This year's forum and discussions will touch upon themes such as the relevance of micro data for evidence-based policymaking; big data and micro-data hubs; statistics on a from-whom-to-whom basis; macroeconomic impacts of natural resources; and measuring material conditions. The conference is by...

The summer school offers a thorough introduction on how the Economic and Financial Governance of EMU works in practice and how it impacts the economy. Participants will: - Improve their knowledge on the EU decision-making process, the rationales, the institutional design and the enforcement of...