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.

We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Research topics of particular relevance to the conference include the following: - Labour market effects of technological change and digitalisation, - Demand effects of technological progress across ages, genders and skills, - Skills...

The two-day event will provide an opportunity for leading academics, policy makers and practitioners to share their views and understandings on investment finance and competitiveness, while raising awareness of the challenges posed by technological transformation and the need to adapt workforce...

We welcome any contributions on these topics, particularly those that focus on the following four areas: - The cyclical position of trade: Empirical studies on the cyclical dynamics of trade, short- and medium-term forecasting models, and trend/cycle decompositions. - Structural changes and...

Topics: - productivity and sectoral allocation, - endogenous labour supply and structural transformation, - the role of services and intangibles in productivity dynamics, - the importance of the quality of institutions for different sectors, - sectoral reallocation and income inequality, -...

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 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.

The conference will bring together researchers from academia and policy institutions to discuss the role of information, beliefs and expectations in the economy and economic policy. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to): - models of economic behaviour without the assumption of...

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...