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.

Sessions will focus primarily on issues encountered by women in finance, economics, and central banks. We interested in conveying the full diversity of women’s experiences in the profession, including intersectionality with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other dimensions. Areas of...

Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - How under-represented are women in fields such as finance, economics and central banks? - What are the factors that keep women from advancing in their careers? - What benefits does increased diversity appear to convey to...

The workshop will focus on labour supply, education and wages during the recovery, with an emphasis on micro/macro linkages. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Research topics of particular relevance to the conference include the following: - the determinants of labour...

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...

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.