The goal of the workshop is to bring together China experts from central banks, other policy institutions and the private sector to discuss the foremost questions confronting the Chinese economy and their implications for the global economy, with a special interest towards policy-related topics...

The aim of the workshop is to exchange views and share experiences related to the emerging concept of macroprudential stance, i.e. the approaches used by policymakers to formulate the macroprudential actions they take to achieve financial stability. The focus will be on the European Union and...

Topics : - Extracting signals from exchange rate movements to inform monetary policy; - Quantifying exchange rate risk premia and their driving factors; - The impact of exchange rate interventions on inflation expectations and/or inflation pass-through; - The impact of carry trade activity on...

Programme: - Unconventional monetary policy in HANK, - Austerity in the aftermath of the great recession, - NLB: negative (no) lower bound policy as an efficient monetary policy instrument, - Beyond the liquidity trap: the secular stagnation of investment, - Monetary union begets fiscal union, -...

Global trade growth was very weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, this trade elasticity has since declined to below unity. This raises the question to what extent the change in the relationship between global...

The conference will focus on positive and normative studies of social insurance programmes including unemployment insurance, disability insurance, social security, and medical insurance. A large and increasing fraction of government budgets are allocated to these programmes. Their design varies...

The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) has been a central concept in the empirical public finance literature for the last 20 years. Precise information on the ETI is potentially very relevant for the design of tax policy as it is, under certain circumstances, a 'sufficient statistic' for...

This year’s workshop targets econometric methods related to the analysis of innovation, with a particular focus on environmental innovation. The objective of the workshop is to bring together promising international young researchers for a week of intense training by renowned international...

This year’s summer workshop targets advanced microeconometric and policy evaluation methods with a special focus on non-linear approaches, such as duration models and quantile regression, addressing endogenous and heterogeneous effects. The objective of the workshop is to bring together...

The objective of the workshop is to provide and overview of how fiscal responses to the crisis varied across Europe. The event aims to bring together country experts who will be presenting the macro and fiscal background in their country, provide an overview of fiscal response to the crisis, and...