This conference is designed to provide a forum for debate on how to achieve sustainable financial stability. The discussion will focus on the long-term effects of changing economic conditions, additional regulatory requirements and new macro prudential policies on the financial system.

Programm: - Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner (DIW and FU Berlin) "Distributional Effects of Indirect/Direct Tax Reforms“ - Rolf Aaberge “The Distributional Impact of Public Services in European Countries” - Andre Decoster „How much inequality can we explain? The role of...

The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers for all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political sciences, public health, psychology and sociology) who use...

We aim at bringing together researchers from several disciplines, especially economics, sociology, geography, and anthropology, in this conference. We do not impose any specific definition of well-being but welcome papers using different concepts. All papers should have an empirical focus and...

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following research areas: Re-assessment and evaluation • of government support measures and crisis management (e.g. the issue of how crisis management can be improved by establishing a new financial market architecture);...