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 aim of the conference is to present the problem of financialization and initiate discussion on the subject, to develop the Polish definition of financialisation, define strategic research directions and to promote international studies on the subject.

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

The state as economic agent, regulator, developer has gained increasing attention during the last decade. The process was further accelerated during the financial and economic crisis of 2007-9. Reforms of the welfare state, direct state intervention in the form of nationalizations and other...

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 global financial crisis has reignited the debate on income and wealth inequality, and in particular on the distributional implications of the crisis and policy responses. While redistributive effects have traditionally been associated with fiscal policy, the impact of monetary policy and...

This year's forum and discussions will touch upon themes such as the relevance of micro data for evidence-based policymaking; big data and micro-data hubs; statistics on a from-whom-to-whom basis; macroeconomic impacts of natural resources; and measuring material conditions. The conference is by...

Topics: - The role of debt and leverage in macroeconomic dynamics, determinants of public and private debt sustainability, and the implications of simultaneous public and private deleveraging. - The sustainability of adjustments. - Early warning systems used to detect macroeconomic and fiscal...

The conference will bring together researchers from academia and policy institutions to discuss the reasons why inflation has been persistently low recently in many industrialised countries as well as the design of appropriate macroeconomic policy responses. Topics: - monetary policy at the...

Topics: - Tax/benefit policies and labor supply, employment - Fiscal integration in the EU and its effects on EU labor markets - National unemployment insurance (UI) policies and perspectives of EU-wide UI-provision - The interactions of fiscal policies with nominal and real rigidities - The...