The webinar will be structured in two parts. Following an introduction by Commissioner Gentiloni, Laurence Boone (OECD) will give a keynote speech on “Tackling the fallout from COVID-19”. A high-level policy panel will then discuss the role of fiscal policy in mitigating the effects of the...

The workshop will be a one-day event with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions. The workshop will be structured in two parts. The first session will concentrate on the design of fiscal rules. The second session will focus on how to apply and enforce...

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...

The workshop aims at covering the following main topics: a) the determinants of public wage bills and the interaction with the private sector; b) the effects of public wages cuts on: - successful consolidation results - the efficiency and quality of public services - productivity developments...

The workshop intends to discuss ways to improve and implement fiscal indicators allowing to gauge a country's performance against the broad objectives for fiscal rules (medium-term stability and cyclical flexibility) and against the constraints arising form the underlying operational and...