Topics include: ‐ Causes of external imbalances ‐ Private or public sector indebtedness and external imbalances ‐ Exchange rates, competitiveness and external imbalances ‐ External debt sustainability ‐ The role of financial flows in the adjustment of current accounts ‐ Policy...

Global trade growth was very weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, this trade elasticity has since declined to below unity. This raises the question to what extent the change in the relationship between global...

Contributions addressing the following issues are particularly welcome: 1. The politics of social tax expenditures 2. The distributional effects of social tax expenditures 3. Changes in the governance of social protection linked to the development of social tax expenditures 4. Country-level or...

The organizers invite submissions of papers that deal with taxation theory. Papers may be either normative or positive (e.g., political economy). Empirical papers will be considered provided that the empirical analysis makes essential use of theoretical model.