Session I: Definition and Scope of the Informal Economy; Session II: Traditional Estimation Practices: Determining the Level and Growth of the Informal Economy; Session III: New Technologies and New Potential Data Sources—Innovation and Big Data; Session IV: Measuring Informal Cross-border...

Cross-border trade in financial services is underdeveloped within the EU, and it meets numerous obstacles between non-EU countries and EU members like the US or Switzerland. International trade organizations like WTO have not achieved much progress in the area of financial services. With Brexit,...

The International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF) Programme is one of the three successors to the International Macroeconomics (IM) Programme, and this meeting replaces the Macroeconomics of Global Interdependence (MGI) Meeting. Topics: International macroeconomics and stabilisation policy;...

The workshop discussion is divided into three themes: 1. New economic realities for cities and regions. What are the challenges and threats for spatial development? Particular attention will be given to digitalization processes, their impact on the development of cities and regions, and how...

The workshop will provide opportunities for scholars performing research in the field of energy economics, environmental economics and their policies, to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that deal with the...

Conference Programme: Session 1: Monetary and fiscal integration; Session 2: The fundamental principles of the Monetary Union; Session 3: The geopolitical dimension of the euro.

We welcome submissions within the broad themes of uncertainty and its implications for asset markets and financial stability. We would welcome particularly theoretical or empirical contributions that address global financial markets. Topics: - The linkage between uncertainty and global financial...

Libra is a so-called “Stable Coin”, which is a crypto-asset that is tied to a basket of bank deposits and short-term government se-curities for a range of historically stable international currencies (including US dollars, Euros, British pounds, Singapore dollars, and Yen). This initiative...

Topics: - Institutional reform of economic governance - Monetary theory and theories of currency areas - Impact and design of monetary and fiscal policy - Industrial and innovation policy - Regulation of the financial sector and the bank-sovereign nexus - The external role of the Euro - The...

Current account (im-)balances played a central role during the financial crisis. The large deficits of a number of euro area countries (in the South and the East) were widely considered unsustainable (at their peak often more than 10 % of GDP). But they have been largely corrected now. The swing...