Topics include: Ecosystem services and natural resources Energy Climate change and the global environment Environmental problems Preferences and welfare Environmental macroeconomics & development Environmental regulation Environmental economics in open economies

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

Cross-border trade in financial services is underdeveloped within the EU, and it meets numerous obstacles between non-EU countries and EU members like the US or Switzerland. International trade organizations like WTO have not achieved much progress in the area of financial services. With Brexit,...

As in previous years, the Meetings will offer relevant topical discussions through which we strive to contribute to the quality of economic policy making in Europe and beyond. This time the event comes at a crucial moment in the European political agenda: a few months after the elections of the...

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, -...

The 2017 conference will be held in Brussels on 19 May and will focus on the latest developments of the financial sector, as well as Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union as catalysts for further financial integration in Europe. At this occasion, the European Commission will present its...

The Five Presidents’ Report of 2015 has called for a macroeconomic stabiliser at the EMU level that would be capable of dealing with asymmetric shocks. A European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) is one potential stabilisation mechanism, although other proposals for devising risk-sharing...

Topic: European and global economics. Program Sep 06, 2016: - How to link the emerging energy union to European climate policies - Innovation policies: What works and what doesn’t - Competitiveness and sustainable growth: Reforming the Finnish economy - Lecture: Debt overhangs and their...

For the last four years WWWforEurope has worked on such a strategic approach in close communication with policy makers, the research community and stakeholders – the results of this research work and the policy conclusions are to be presented and discussed at this symposium: WWWforEurope’s...