The aim of the conference is to investigate how macroeconomic policies affect business dynamism and how that affects macroeconomic aggregates. Of particular interest are papers that study these issues in light of the current challenges posed by the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the broader...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and experience among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision making in the public and private sectors. The conference will cover all areas of modeling applied to monetary, financial, fiscal, energy,...

Conference Theme: "Re-inventing the welfare state? Pathways to sustainability, equality and inclusion in European welfare states"

The workshop will take place in Amsterdam and will have an international audience from universities, central banks and international policy organizations. It will bring together experts directly involved in research on the financial cycle, with a view to discussing insights, challenges and...

The Conference will focus on the effects and policy implications of balance sheets misalignments for the EU economies. The financial crisis brought into light that balance sheets are not neutral: their size and composition matter for the response of the economy to shocks, for the impact of...

The global financial crisis has reignited the debate on income and wealth inequality, and in particular on the distributional implications of the crisis and policy responses. While redistributive effects have traditionally been associated with fiscal policy, the impact of monetary policy and...

The conference provides the opportunities to present and discuss research papers dealing with changing economic and competitive environment from the perspective of academic researchers, business economists as the institutional representatives. Conference Topics: - Economics, Socio-economics and...

In the presence of frictions, markets often (but not always) do not generate the socially efficient outcome. However, asymmetric information between the private and public sector prevents the government from designing efficient policies. In both labor and public economics advances have been made...

The Conference will provide a forum for the first international academic debate on the Fifth Cohesion Report between regional studies researchers and senior officials from the European institutions. The key topics of the conference will be: the contribution of cohesion policy to Europe 2020, the...

The following fields will be discussed: a) Causes of Financial crisis: Interest rates, International Imbalances and the Great Moderation ("Minsky Effect") b) Trade and financial flows: Savings - consumption imbalance c) Macroeconomic Performance: Core and Periphery in EU d) Eurozone in Distress:...