The workshop will be a one-day event featuring three sessions of analytical presentations, three scene-setting interventions and a final policy-oriented panel discussion. - The first session will set the framework of corporate debt. - The second session will focus on the link between...

Topics: - Stabilisation policies and growth in a low interest rate environment; - The economics of high public debt reconsidered; - Fiscal federalism revisited; - Fiscal rules, fiscal institutions, or both: political economy considerations.

The conference brings together leading figures from academia and economic policy-making circles, altogether forming an audience of about 80 invited participants, to discuss the research carried out in the context of DG ECFIN's Fellowship Initiative 2014-2015 under the overall theme "Forward to a...

the Second EU Cohesion Policy Conference organised by the RSA and DG Regio, together with the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, aims to take stock of the challenges and opportunities for Cohesion policy in 2014-20. Papers are invited on the following questions and themes...

The workshop will comprise a first session on the state of play and the rationale behind the taxation of wealth, including some example of recent experiences by Member States and a second session that looks into specific instruments (e.g. transmission taxes, housing taxes) and the specific...

With the growth agenda taking centre stage of the current political debate, the workshop will offer a forum to look at the recent performance of the Czech economy and its medium-term growth prospects.

The main aim of the network is to facilitate an exchange of views amongst practitioners on policy relevant issues and thereby deepen the analysis in the area of public finances. The network works through holding annual meetings organised by DG ECFIN, where participants present their work and...