At this conference, experts from academia, trade unions and the European Commission will exchange perspectives on the impact of NextGenerationEU (NGEU) on national and EU social and labour policies. How different is this recovery strategy from the way the EU managed the 2011 euro crisis? What...

Since 2008, the Bank for International Settlements and the World Bank, in corporation with partner institutions, have organized this biennial conference to discuss policy issues, quantitative methods and current challenges for central banks, sovereign wealth funds and public pension plans. The...

Against the background of rising support for right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) in Europe, FES Democracy of the Future has recently published the report Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It which unpacks the reasons for the success of these parties. The report identifies...

Topics: - Household savings behaviour; - Occupational pension schemes; - The role of housing and home equity release products; - Risk-management and investment strategies of pension funds and insurance companies; - Bank business models, bank funding and lending; - Low interest rates and...

The first session deals with the role of direct democracy and the implications of women in politics. The second and third session focus on the persistence of elite structures after democratic transitions as well as the role of perceptions of public and religious organizations. The last set of...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss labor markets dynamics and their relation with growth. Topics: - Labor market responses to macroeconomic and policy changes: structure of labor markets, downward wage rigidities, the institutional environment...

The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

Paper proposals may address four major topics, although this list is not exhaustive: - local importers of developing and emerging countries, their individual trajectories, practices and their relationships with the administrations controlling the borders, their organization as transnational...

The objective of this workshop is twofold. On the one hand, the aim is to promote applied research on existing measurement tools and/or experiments conducted by customs and tax administrations, international organizations and donors. As such, the contributions of practitioners are encouraged,...

We welcome papers analyzing: - The measurement of both, inter and intra generational income mobility - The effect of educational, labor market and social policies in enhancing / obstructing social mobility - Political economy aspects of an emerging middle class: Do the poor face the risk of...