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...

Cross-border trade in financial services is underdeveloped within the EU, and it meets numerous obstacles between non-EU countries and EU members like the US or Switzerland. International trade organizations like WTO have not achieved much progress in the area of financial services. With Brexit,...

Current account (im-)balances played a central role during the financial crisis. The large deficits of a number of euro area countries (in the South and the East) were widely considered unsustainable (at their peak often more than 10 % of GDP). But they have been largely corrected now. The swing...

Topics: - Economic and financial governance of the EU: the institutional framework; - EMU economic issues: ECB monetary policy and sovereign debt sustainability; - The Banking Union: how institutions work in practice; - Developments in EU financial markets: CMU, financial integration, digital...

As in previous years, the Meetings will offer relevant topical discussions through which we strive to contribute to the quality of economic policy making in Europe and beyond. This time the event comes at a crucial moment in the European political agenda: a few months after the elections of the...

The Methods in International Finance Network (MIFN) aims at promoting research in the field of international finance. It provides a platform for researchers and advanced PhD students to exchange research ideas and share new research findings with an emphasis on the interactions between...

The main aim of the network is to facilitate an exchange of views amongst practitioners on policy relevant issues and thereby deepen the analysis in the area of public finances. The network works through holding annual meetings organised by DG ECFIN, where participants present their work and...

The conference will focus on the state of play with global imbalances, exchange rate developments, and financial integration, with a view to assess challenges from a forward-looking perspective. Topics: - Current accounts and global imbalances, - Monetary policy and exchange rates, -...

The 2017 conference will be held in Brussels on 19 May and will focus on the latest developments of the financial sector, as well as Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union as catalysts for further financial integration in Europe. At this occasion, the European Commission will present its...

The Five Presidents’ Report of 2015 has called for a macroeconomic stabiliser at the EMU level that would be capable of dealing with asymmetric shocks. A European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) is one potential stabilisation mechanism, although other proposals for devising risk-sharing...