This online workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Breakout sessions will be organized in order to facilitate further discussion between participants. In light of the COVID-19 crisis, the...

The two‐day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding the monetary transmission mechanism. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis as well as empirical...

The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. Both theoretical and empirical studies are welcome.

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...

The summer school offers a thorough introduction on how the Economic and Financial Governance of EMU works in practice and how it impacts the economy. Participants will: - Improve their knowledge on the EU decision-making process, the rationales, the institutional design and the enforcement of...

The recent turbulent times have revived the interest in business cycle analysis, forecasting and methods to assess the effects of economic policies. This, in turn, has generated the development of refined or totally new econometric methods, in particular based on Bayesian techniques. The...

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

Judgement and expert knowledge is widely thought to be important in the successful practice of forecasting. For policymakers, forecasts also embody judgements about the state of the economy, the transmission of shocks and optimal policy responses which necessitate the use of structural models....

Chair: Brigitte Preissl, Intereconomics and ZBW Speakers: - Introductory remarks by Felix Roth, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Intereconomics - Torben M. Andersen, University of Aarhus - Anton Hemerijck, VU University Amsterdam - Thomas Leoni, Austrian Institute for Economic...