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...

Papers on all fields of public finance are welcome. The particular focus of the 2015 annual conference will be on European tax policy, including, (but not restricted to), research on: - Tax competition, tax base erosion, and profit shifting - European tax harmonisation - Analysis of tax...

The objective of the workshop is to provide and overview of how fiscal responses to the crisis varied across Europe. The event aims to bring together country experts who will be presenting the macro and fiscal background in their country, provide an overview of fiscal response to the crisis, and...

The scientific committee therefore encourages contributions from all areas of labour economics and related fields focusing on the role of tasks in explaining changes in the wage and employment structure. Sociological, pedagogical or cross-disciplinary perspectives utilizing the task framework to...

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...

The focus of the conference will be on the assessment of green growth strategies. The goal is to clarify the challenges of smart and sustainable growth as well as to provide solutions. There will be an introduction to the green growth debate, given by Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK & MCC), a summary of...

The measurement of IT-based services productivity is at the heart of the ProdIT research project, which is patronized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this workshop is to share know-how and experiences on the measurement of service productivity....

The prime goal of the conference is to elucidate the challenges to pursuing a smart and sustainable growth path in the economies of Europe. Since this issue has been receiving increasing attention in the worlds of politics and academia, a second aim is to bring together policy makers and...

This workshop invites empirical and theoretical contributions to this topic from all areas of labour economics and related fields such as the economics of education, industrial economics, health economics, international economics, or public finance. Micro- and macroeconomic papers are welcome.

Contributions on the econometric evaluation of policies fighting social exclusion are welcome. A non-exhaustive list of topics is: - Policies for long-term unemployed and welfare recipients - Econometric methods of evaluation - Rehabilitation policies - Policies for socially excluded and...