SUERF and the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) will hold a joint one-day conference in Madrid on Friday 14 November 2014 as part of CNMV's 25th anniversary celebrations. The Institutional Keynote will also double up as the 2014 SUERF Annual Lecture, and will be delivered by Sir...

In the past 200 years, the world has experienced unprecedented economic development as well as profound demographic changes. Many dimensions of these dynamic processes are not well understood. What are the underlying forces behind the different dimensions of economic and demographic development,...

Issues to be addressed include: What is special about the public sector? Public sector efficiency. Public debt sustainability. Changes in the role and size of public sector. Incentives in the public sector. Tax-spending mix. Optimal public policy. Delay of reforms. Rent seeking, tax evasion and...

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...

Behavioural political economy uses behavioural concepts in explaining decisions of politicians, candidates for political office, voters, lobbyists, and others in the political and policymaking arena. Decision-makers may be subject to bounded rationality. Utility maximisation may be based on...

Subsidies to fossil energies are largely wasteful as they serve to increase carbon emissions, weaken public budgets and importers’ energy security, and in most cases impact income distribution adversely. Reform of energy subsidy policies is sorely needed in many countries, and is an important...

Six years after the onset of the financial crisis, economic recovery is uneven and in many cases lackluster. In a number of crisis countries unemployment has reached dramatic levels. Government finances have sharply deteriorated in many countries and will take a long time to restore towards...

In recent years, economic growth in Europe has been unsatisfactorily low. Governments, parliaments and international organisations are looking for ways to stimulate growth and improve employment. The organisers invite researchers at universities, international organisations and financial...

The training will then cover the following topics: - Accessing the data - Finding the right data - Visualising the data - Merging household and individual data - Dealing with missing values - Using imputed values - Creating analysis variables from HILDA data - Using weights - Generating...

A short workshop will be held in Vienna on the morning of 12 December 2013 in Vienna to tie in with the 1st SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Research Prize - with papers currently being requested on the subject of "Banking and Financial Markets between Integration and Segmentation after...