The topic of this year's conference is “Pensions in an Ageing Society”. Worldwide, ageing will have a major impact on the economy. Social security and pension systems must be designed to meet changes in the demographic composition of the population. For central banks, ageing of the society...

The topic of this year's CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe' and will cover the following sub-areas: (1) the Flexibility of European Labor Markets and Labor Mobility within the EU, (2) the Flexibility of Product Markets, (3) Financial...

An der Forschungsstelle für Nationale und Internationale Finanzordnung am Lorenz-von-Stein-Institut an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel wurde in den vergangenen fünf Jahren ein Mikrosimulationsmodell (KiTS – Kiel Tax-Benefit Micro-Simulation Model) für die Bundesrepublik...

Panel 1: What Will the Elderly Need in Retirement? Panel 2: How Do Individuals Plan and Save for Retirement? Panel 3: What Happens When Things Go Wrong? Panel 4: TBD Panel 5: Can People Continue to Work? Panel 6: What are the Risks and Returns of Private Accounts for Social Security? Panel 7:...

The conference work is organized in the following six workshops: 1. Macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal policy) 2. International economic policy 3. Labor and social policy 4. Regional policy 5. Sectoral economic policy 6. Microeconomic policy or entrepreneurship policy

Pension reforms top the political agenda across the OECD countries. Increases in life expectancy, decline in fertility, a reduced labor force participation, rising instabilities in working careers, and the impending retirement of the baby boom generation create pressures to cut benefits,...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad...

The Financial Markets Group is organising a conference on, on the occasion of the recent publication of the first report of the Pensions Commission. Following the Pensions Commission’s invitation to comment on issues raised in the report, we would like to bring together a small group of...

Just two days after his reelection, President Bush announced that Social Security reform would be a top priority for his second term. The president’s commitment to tackling the "third rail of American politics" promises to be one of the most important domestic policy debates of...