The purpose of this conference is to provide international comparisons of the pension reforms across Europe with an external and well-informed view of a world-renowned expert: Professor Peter Diamond (2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics). Conference Program: - Keynote Lecture on Pension...

Controlling inflation is the main objective of monetary policy. The low inflation rates over the past few years illustrate that stabilizing inflation is not straightforward. Recently, inflation realisations have surprised on several occasions. At the global level, inflation responses to the...

Programme: Panel 1: Scars or scratches: how damaging is the fall-out from the crisis for the real economy and the natural rate of interest? Panel 2: The financial sector and prudential policies in the new normal. Panel 3: Monetary policy beyond normalisation: objectives and instruments.

The workshop aims at creating a network of researchers working in closely related fields, and is primarily targeted at junior macroeconomists active in Belgium (i.e. junior Faculty members, postdocs or advanced PhD students). Of course, non-Belgian researchers are welcome to participate as well....

Topics: - Cyber technologies – a challenge for regulators and supervisors? - Cyber security – threats to businesses and state bodies? - Cyber resilience and the financial sector – how to reach an EU policy that balances innovation and regulation?

The aim of this two-day workshop is to bring together researchers working on topics in Empirical Macroeconomics to present and discuss their ongoing research. We invite contributions on issues related to Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Business Cycle Analysis or International Macroeconomics.

The main aim of the network is to facilitate an exchange of views amongst practitioners on policy relevant issues and thereby deepen the analysis in the area of public finances. The network works through holding annual meetings organised by DG ECFIN, where participants present their work and...

The conference will focus on the state of play with global imbalances, exchange rate developments, and financial integration, with a view to assess challenges from a forward-looking perspective. Topics: - Current accounts and global imbalances, - Monetary policy and exchange rates, -...

Program: - Extensive and intensive margin in employment recovery following a financial crisis, - Behavioural macroeconomics. Some applications, - Decomposing the business cycle: the relative importance of domestic and common shocks within the euro area, - Adaptive Learning and the Transmission...

The aim of this two-day workshop is to bring together researchers working on topics in Empirical Macroeconomics to present and discuss their ongoing research. We invite contributions related to Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Business Cycle Analysis or International Macroeconomics.