The fifth biennial ECB conference on Fiscal policy and EMU governance brings together participants including from academia, the central banking community, European and international organisations. This year’s conference will address the fiscal policy response and monetary and fiscal policy...

The conference features research paper presentations by leading economists on topics relevant for a central bank. The highlight is the Jean Monnet Lecture, delivered this year by Nobel laureate Esther Duflo.

Die gemeinsame Tagung des Arbeitskreises Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) und des Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts (WSI) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung nimmt die Entwicklungen des Krisenjahrzehnts nach Ausbruch der Finanz- und...

In the aftermath of the crisis, this workshop will focus on employment creation as a means of remedying the strong rises in unemployment seen in some economies. The workshop will pay particular attention to the factors behind, and pre-requisites for, the creation of high quality and high...

The Summer School addresses PhD students and Post-docs with a strong academic record and a keen interest in policy issues, and staff members of policy institutions.

Economic Growth - Gino Gancia (CREI and University Pompeu Fabra) This course consists of five three-hour lectures on topics in the area of economic growth and technological progress. A first goal of the course is to discuss different theories of economic growth and their relative merits in...

DGB und WSI suchen Antworten, inwieweit die Arbeitsförderung einen Beitrag leisten kann bzw. muss, den Polarisierungstendenzen am Arbeitsmarkt entgegenzuwirken. Dabei soll insbesondere an den Themenfeldern Arbeitsvermittlung, Förderung der Weiterbildung und öffentlich geförderte...

The WSI Summer School aims at giving participants an overview on core policy fields which are crucial for the understanding of the dynamics of European integration: - Institutional and Political Economic Obstacles to Social Europe - European Macroeconomic Policy: The Euro as Challenge to the...

The workshop provides a platform to discuss applied economic research. We invite empirical and theoretical contributions from all fields of macroeconomics and international economics with an emphasis on a high relevance for economic policy. The special topic of the workshop will be State of the...

The purpose of the workshop is to identify policies and reforms that may suitably support the recovery from the crisis, also through empirical characterization of how institutional factors and past reforms have shaped country-specific crisis experiences.