The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

Topics: - Quantification of the Impact of Reform - Short- vs. Long-Term Effects of Reform - Product and Labor Market Reform - Financial Sector Reform - EU Convergence and Reforms - Reforms and the Functioning of EMU - Distributional Consequences of Reform - Timing, Sequencing, and Clustering of...

The conference invites the submission of both theoretical and empirical papers from all fields of public finance. Preference will be given to papers from Norway and Germany, but a limited number of papers from other countries will also be accepted.

Each spring, thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations, and invited participants from the academia and private sectors, gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. At the heart of the gathering are...

Relevant issues and factors for current account adjustment may include: - The exchange rate regime (external versus internal devaluations) - The modality of fiscal consolidations (tax versus spending adjustments) - Firm heterogeneity and export performance - Labour market reforms - Financial...

Goal of the conference is to gain feedback from experts and policymakers on draft policy notes outlining practical options for reforming environmental policies in Europe, and research needs to help improve policy design and evaluation. The focus will be on fiscal and regulatory policies...

The objective of the conference is to verify and assess the process of the building of market economies in Europe after 25 years, including lessons learnt from transition and focusing on the challenges lying ahead. Conference panels: - The foundation: monetary and exchange rate policy - Bricks...

The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty...

The theme of this year’s conference is “Investing in International Markets”. We invite academic paper submissions for the conference that examine the decision to invest in international markets by corporations, institutional or retail investors. As in past years, we aim to bring together a...