The role of fiscal policy for business-cycle stabilisation and for risk sharing in a monetary union is a matter of interest for both policymakers and academics, especially in view of the financial crisis in Europe of past years. The aim of the conference is to explore this role, accompanied by...

Im ersten Teil des Leopoldina-Symposiums wird die besondere Rolle der Wissenschaft im globalen Zusammenwirken für nachhaltige Entwicklung herausgearbeitet und ihr spezifischer Beitrag bei der Umsetzung der Agenda 2030 identifiziert. Darauf aufbauend werden im zweiten Teil die Herausforderungen...

The topic of the 2016 edition of the School will be Social Insurance Programs. Lectures, presentations and discussions will cover several aspects of social insurance programs – including unemployment benefits, retirement systems, parental leave policies and health insurance. The focus will be...

The conference will focus on positive and normative studies of social insurance programmes including unemployment insurance, disability insurance, social security, and medical insurance. A large and increasing fraction of government budgets are allocated to these programmes. Their design varies...

The conference topics "Employment" and "Social Protection" are broadly defined. The former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in turn, includes not only governmental institutions of the welfare state, but also other non-governmental institutions of...

Die jährlich ausgerichtete Veranstaltung richtet sich an Promovendinnen und Promovenden unterschiedlicher sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen und angrenzender Fächer (z.B. Soziologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft), deren laufende Doktorarbeit einen Zusammenhang mit dem...

This year’s summit will focus on the economic, social and governance aspects of the welfare state systems in Europe. At this occasion the policy briefs and the survey will be debated and presented to high-level politicians and experts. Participation in this event is by invitation only.

Neben Fachvorträgen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen für die Sozialversicherung sowie einer moderierten Podiumsdiskussion, wird das Symposium die Gelegenheit zu einem fachlichen Austausch rund um die „Sozialversicherungswissenschaft“ bieten.

The European Campus of Excellence Summer School is targeted at international Master and early PhD students with a social science background whose research projects cover an aspect related to one of the three topics (1) dynamics of inequality, (2) old and new social risks, (3) social investment.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together CESifo members to present and discuss their ongoing research, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between them. All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of...