Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

The workshop’s aim is to bring together scholars from economics and politics interested in interdisciplinary work on public policy, political economy and public choice. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers by both economists and political scientists. The workshop is intended for...

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...

Inflation in most advanced economies has risen to levels unprecedented for at least two decades. Central banks around the world have started to announce rapid moves towards policy normalization and increased interest rates. This conference tries to understand the causes of the inflation...

Stimulating roundtables on Shareholder Engagement & Corporate Social Responsability and Environmental Risk and Economic Policy will be held on site & online. Focused on the challenges of finding sustainable finance solutions and assessing their impact on society, TSE launched the Sustainable...

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the policy response to it, has changed the world economy along many dimensions, including unprecedented levels of government debt, inflated Central Bank balance sheets, increased inequality within and macroeconomic divergence across countries, as well as a high level...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

The journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet are open to all fields in applied and theoretical Public Economics. This includes areas such as: - Auctions and Public Markets; - Development Economics and Policies; - Education and Labor Market Analysis/Policies; - Environmental and Health Economics; -...

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...