Having barely recovered from the successive waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, European economies are now facing another serious shock. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that have followed have given rise to inflation rates unseen for several decades, driven primarily by higher...

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...

The workshop will explore four main themes: - The role and design of common European fiscal instruments; - The relative roles of market discipline and fiscal rules in incentivizing good fiscal policy; - The aims and design of European fiscal rules. - The role of national independent fiscal...

The workshop will be a one-day event with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions. The workshop will be structured in two parts. The first session will concentrate on the design of fiscal rules. The second session will focus on how to apply and enforce...

The main aim of the network is to facilitate an exchange of views amongst practitioners on policy relevant issues and thereby deepen the analysis in the area of public finances. The network works through holding annual meetings organised by DG ECFIN, where participants present their work and...

This fourteenth Research Workshop will address: Track A: International Corporate Governance Track B: Strategic Direction Track C: HR Governance Track D: Strategic Control Track E: Governance of Digitization and of Cyber Security Track F : Responsible Board Leadership in a Glocal and Digital Age

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

The seminar will focus on the specific problems and challenges encountered in international and domestic mergers and acquisitions. During the course, we will present and discuss alternative perspectives on these phenomena: strategic; human resource; cultural; knowledge transfer; social capital;...

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...