Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

Topics: - Propagation of financial shocks; - Technology transformation in a locked-down world; - Covid-19 & digitalisation of the workplace; - Green technologies in a post-pandemic world; - Government involvement and investment allocation; - Fiscal emergency measures and the cleansing effects of...

Topics: - productivity measurement at the micro level - micro productivity and aggregate real activity - credit constraints and investment - inefficient lending - funding innovation and entrepreneurs - financial repression, factor accumulation, and re-allocation - macroprudential and monetary...

In cooperation with KOF/ETH Zurich, OECD and INSEE, CIRET will organise a 1 ½-day workshop on the measurement of output gap potential growth and productivity with a focus on how economic tendency surveys can improve the accuracy of the corresponding estimates in real time. Submissions on this...

The aim of the conference is to bring together policymakers and practitioners, international institutions, and leading academics to shed light on these issues from both practical and research perspectives, and draw robust and novel policy implications.

Financial systems play a vital role in boosting productivity growth by allocating resources efficiently and facilitating investment and innovation. But they are also prone to costly booms and busts, which can leave deep scars on the productive tissue of the economy. Indeed, in the aftermath of...

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

The Conference will focus on two main challenges: Economic growth and inequality. Promoting high and socially inclusive growth has been a key issue on the European political agenda since many years. However, economic developments have also affected the distribution of income and wealth, with...

The aim of the conference is to provide an economic forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context. Current long-term forecasts suggest much lower growth in Europe out to 2050. The Conference will focus on the challenges for Europe in such a low growth environment....

Forum 2014, entitled Resilient Economies for Inclusive Societies, will be organised around three cross-cutting themes: Inclusive Growth, Quality Jobs, and Trust, exploring the multifaceted nature of resilience and how to now “bounce forward” in addressing economic, social, and environmental...