Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The Five Presidents’ Report of 2015 has called for a macroeconomic stabiliser at the EMU level that would be capable of dealing with asymmetric shocks. A European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) is one potential stabilisation mechanism, although other proposals for devising risk-sharing...

The summer school offers a thorough introduction on how the Economic and Financial Governance of EMU works in practice and how it impacts the economy. Participants will: - Improve their knowledge on the EU decision-making process, the rationales, the institutional design and the enforcement of...

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

The post-crisis recovery continues to disappoint in advanced and emerging economies alike. Slow growth and low inflation have led to concerns that advanced economies (AEs) might be facing secular stagnation putting greater emphasis on emerging market economies (EMEs) to support global growth....

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

Chair: Brigitte Preissl, Intereconomics and ZBW Speakers: - Introductory remarks by Felix Roth, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Intereconomics - Torben M. Andersen, University of Aarhus - Anton Hemerijck, VU University Amsterdam - Thomas Leoni, Austrian Institute for Economic...

Topics: - The definition and measurement of global liquidity - Global liquidity and the direction, size and composition of international capital flows - The impact of global liquidity on asset prices and exchange rates - The impact of global liquidity on monetary and financial stability - The...

Special event co-hosted by CEPS, Intereconomics and German National Library of Economics (ZBW) – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.