Conference Theme: "Re-inventing the welfare state? Pathways to sustainability, equality and inclusion in European welfare states"

The workshop will take place in Amsterdam and will have an international audience from universities, central banks and international policy organizations. It will bring together experts directly involved in research on the financial cycle, with a view to discussing insights, challenges and...

The Conference will focus on the effects and policy implications of balance sheets misalignments for the EU economies. The financial crisis brought into light that balance sheets are not neutral: their size and composition matter for the response of the economy to shocks, for the impact of...

The first objective of this two-day conference is to provide insights into the optimal and politically feasible design of climate policies and to discuss the importance of Green Paradox effects if suboptimal climate policies are implemented instead. The second objective is to emphasize and show...