Goal of the conference is to gain feedback from experts and policymakers on draft policy notes outlining practical options for reforming environmental policies in Europe, and research needs to help improve policy design and evaluation. The focus will be on fiscal and regulatory policies...

The following non-exhaustive list of topics would be particular welcome: - Theoretical and empirical analysis of taxes on the financial sector - Analysis of interactions and trade-offs between regulation and taxation - Effects of financial sector taxation on the macro economy and financial...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

From the 1960s onwards, international economics and international business have been developing as separate fields. More recently, four trends that may lead to a possible convergence of international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have become evident. First, the modern IE...

Climate change is one of the greatest collective action problems facing the international community. The fiscal implications of climate change are, arguably, immediate, lasting, and they are liable to affect all countries, albeit in rather different forms and degrees. The aim of this conference...

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...

The tax systems of developing countries differ considerably from those of developed countries. Revenue raised as a percentage of GDP is smaller than in developed countries and tax structures also differ considerably. The workshop is intended to bring together researchers working in this field to...

All CESifo Research Network members are invited to submit their papers, which may deal with any topic within the domains of employment and social protection. Both domains are to be broadly defined, the former including, in particular, issues of the organisation of labour. The latter domain, in...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the UCLA conference. Papers focusing on general equilibrium growth and models of large trading economies are welcome. The roles of global and regional trade patterns, foreign direct investment,...

Economists working in this field are invited to submit a paper or an abstract for presentation at the Manila conference. Papers focusing on the patterns and implications of international trade and foreign direct investment in a growing world economy, as well as the conditions under which nations...