Economists need not only to have a clear idea of which instruments are most efficient and how their impacts can be evaluated ex post. Economists also need to understand why policymakers and voters sometimes oppose the use of such instruments. This is the focus of the CESifo Workshop on...

Sustainability is often referred to as a major objective to be respected by social policy makers. Yet, what is to be understood by this principle? Is there something as a common understanding of the principle of sustainability, valid across various disciplines, in a cross-national setting and...

Topics: - Financial sustainability and adequacy of social protection systems, – Advocating rights for “invisibles”, – Role, competences, and training of social workers in the face of current emergences, – Globalization and changing labour markets and labour rights, – Social...

The 16th annual conference of the ESPAnet will be an exciting opportunity to discuss the challenges, problems and future prospect of European welfare systems at the time of great political, economic and environmental uncertainties of the globalized world. For centuries the welfare state in...

The goal of the conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and experience among economists conducting quantitative analysis for policy and decision making in the public and private sectors. The conference will cover all areas of modeling applied to monetary, financial, fiscal, energy,...

The aim of the conference is to provide an economic forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context. The Conference will focus on two main challenges for economic policies: - monetary policy normalisation - political economy of fiscal policies.

This workshop will bring together stakeholders involved in the generation or implementation of evidence-based policy advice. Participants will discuss the state of affairs in different countries (including the UK, the US, and Germany) and in different policy domains (including innovation,...

Recent developments have put international tax issues at the top of the global policy agenda. The US government has proposed a switch from worldwide taxation of corporate profits to territorial taxation while the US Congress is considering an even more fundamental reform of the corporate tax...

The patterns of labour market participation have recently started to diverge across advanced economies, reflecting structural and demographic factors as well as the long term legacies of the Great Recession, whose impact has been felt differently across countries. A full understanding of labour...