The 17th BIS Annual Conference took place in Zurich, Switzerland, on 22 June 2018. The event brought together a distinguished group of central bank Governors, leading academics and former public officials to exchange views on the topic "Ten years after the Great Financial Crisis: what has...

The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multipliers, whose size and sensitivity determine the...