The Congress will cover the following hot topics: - How to tackle the aftermath of PSD2 - Why the Plug & Play philosophy is key in an open banking era - The need to shift from ego-systems to eco-systems to become more efficient - The new paradigm of digital transformation - The evolution of...

The 2017 CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education, organised by Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford University, Area Director) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute), aims to bring together official CESifo network members to discuss their recent research and to encourage broader interactions,...

The purpose of this event is to bring together CESifo members who are working in the areas of macroeconomics and money to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their...

Papers for the Area Conference can be submitted on any topic under the Global Economy field, covering trade, international finance, migration, global environmental issues, and others. Papers will be discussed in seminar format. Please note that CESifo Area Conferences are open to CESifo Network...

The conference is intended to give an overview of the current research undertaken by members of the Public Sector Economics area of the network and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between area members. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers which may...

The purpose of the conference is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo research network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the broad...

Banks have already made progress towards developing a distribution strategy in which different channels are closely integrated. However, true multichannel distribution is hard to achieve and requires significant long-term investment. But if banks do manage to achieve the ideal multidistribution...

In the past 200 years, the world has experienced unprecedented economic development as well as profound demographic changes. Many dimensions of these dynamic processes are not well understood. What are the underlying forces behind the different dimensions of economic and demographic development,...

Issues to be addressed include: What is special about the public sector? Public sector efficiency. Public debt sustainability. Changes in the role and size of public sector. Incentives in the public sector. Tax-spending mix. Optimal public policy. Delay of reforms. Rent seeking, tax evasion and...

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...