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...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. Attendance by registration only.

This event has been cancelled due to the global health crisis. The aim of the conference is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America.

The workshop will explore four main themes: - The role and design of common European fiscal instruments; - The relative roles of market discipline and fiscal rules in incentivizing good fiscal policy; - The aims and design of European fiscal rules. - The role of national independent fiscal...

The workshop will be a one-day event with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions. The workshop will be structured in two parts. The first session will concentrate on the design of fiscal rules. The second session will focus on how to apply and enforce...

After the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991 a number of prominent researchers explored the diverse forms of capitalism and their evolution. Much of this literature countered both mainstream and orthodox Marxist views that capitalism would tend to gravitate towards one form, such as the Western...

Topics: Accounting; Alternative Finance; Asset Pricing; Bank Lending; Bank Management; Behavioral Finance; Big Data; Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies; Commodities Markets; Contemporary Issues in Banking; Corporate Finance and Governance; Data Mining in Finance; Emerging Markets; Energy; Entrepreneurship...

There seems to be general agreement that „populism“ has been on the rise over the past decade, and that it has implications for election outcomes and economic policies. There is the notion that pupulist economic policies oriented towards short-term gains at the cost of long-term structural...

Topics: 1. Multi‐level finance and public budgeting; fiscal federalism. 2. Public choice, political economy; voting. 3. Theoretical and empirical analyses of taxation and income redistribution; welfare economics; inequality. 4. Asymmetric and private information; mechanism design; games and...

The aim is to analyze topics related to the institutional underpinning of fiscal policies. The workshop focused on research at the intersection of political economy, public finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest included: (i) the political determination of public policies (fiscal and...