Cyberspace, as the backbone of the digital single market and being strongly embedded in our society, reflects this uncertainty through the increasing number of threats and attacks we’re seeing on digital technologies. Against this backdrop, the EU’s posture on cybersecurity should respond to...

The global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing energy crisis have affected households differently depending on their socioeconomic status. In addition, households react differently to economic policies, depending on the specific constraints to which they are subject and the...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

Cross-border trade in financial services is underdeveloped within the EU, and it meets numerous obstacles between non-EU countries and EU members like the US or Switzerland. International trade organizations like WTO have not achieved much progress in the area of financial services. With Brexit,...

Current account (im-)balances played a central role during the financial crisis. The large deficits of a number of euro area countries (in the South and the East) were widely considered unsustainable (at their peak often more than 10 % of GDP). But they have been largely corrected now. The swing...

Topics: - Economic and financial governance of the EU: the institutional framework; - EMU economic issues: ECB monetary policy and sovereign debt sustainability; - The Banking Union: how institutions work in practice; - Developments in EU financial markets: CMU, financial integration, digital...

As in previous years, the Meetings will offer relevant topical discussions through which we strive to contribute to the quality of economic policy making in Europe and beyond. This time the event comes at a crucial moment in the European political agenda: a few months after the elections of the...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

The Methods in International Finance Network (MIFN) aims at promoting research in the field of international finance. It provides a platform for researchers and advanced PhD students to exchange research ideas and share new research findings with an emphasis on the interactions between...