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...

This conference will explore the potential impact on different member states via presentations and panel debates with researchers and policymakers. The ensuing discussion should allow us to clearly distinguish between areas with common grounds in the negotiations from areas where opinions and...

The focus of this year's conference will be the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

The idea of the conference is to bring together economists who have recently contributed new research on the interlinkages between current account imbalances and financial factors.

Special event co-hosted by CEPS, Intereconomics and German National Library of Economics (ZBW) – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

Topics: quantitative measures the degree of cross-country risk sharing, and of the gains from risk sharing, based on micro and macro data; determinants of the degree of risk sharing; comparisons between interregional and international risk sharing; portfolio choices and international risk...

The Brussels Economic Forum is one of the European Union’s premier platforms for debate on economic policy issues. The next Brussels Economic Forum will look into the crisis exit strategies as an opportunity to create new sources of growth and enhance EU competitiveness, with a special focus...

Topics: - Overall assessment of EMU functioning. - Financial markets. - The euro in the international economy. - Governance, institutions and design of new policy initiatives. - Tax and public finance issues - Internal market issues

Session I: Unwinding global imbalances Session II: Adjustment and integration dynamics in EMU Session III: Fostering catching-up and cohesion in the EU

The workshop will bring together national and European policy-makers, experts from academia, national authorities, the European Commission and other international organisations to discuss the state-of-play, the channels and the consequences of corporate tax competition and coordination in the...