The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) has been a central concept in the empirical public finance literature for the last 20 years. Precise information on the ETI is potentially very relevant for the design of tax policy as it is, under certain circumstances, a 'sufficient statistic' for...

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...

The Barcelona Political Economy Summer School offers courses on different topics in Political Economy and is taught by leading experts in the field. The courses cover theoretical and empirical aspects and are designed to provide students and researchers with knowledge of the most recent...

For the scientific sessions of our conference, we seek high-quality academic papers in areas such as: - EU debt crisis - Fiscal policy in the EU - Prospects of an EU fiscal union - Income and wealth inequality - Redistributive preferences - Optimal redistributive taxation - Financial sector...

This workshop aims to bring together world-leading academics working in the field of international environmental treaty negotiations and covers different conceptual approaches such as game theory, with a theoretical and empirical focus, behavioural economics including experimental economics, and...

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

Topics: - Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact - Financial stability of the EMU - The role of ECB - Fiscal imbalances and sovereign default in the EU - Debt consolidation strategies - Dealing with Current Account Imbalances - The role of EURO in the emerging world monetary system

The purpose of this workshop is to achieve a better understanding of conflict and attempt to reach policy conclusions. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, • Contracting in the shadow of conflict • Understanding civil wars • The "Natural Resource Curse" • Alliances and their...