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28/11/2016 : Annual Research Conference

DG ECFIN's Annual Research Conference took place on November 28 in Brussels. The conference brought together leading figures from academia and economic policy-making circles, altogether forming an audience of about 80 invited participants.

The conference has been the flagship event in the context of DG ECFIN's Fellowship Initiative 2016-2017 with the theme "Moving closer rather than drifting apart: Challenges to economic integration at the global and European level". Maurice Obstfeld, Chief Economist at the IMF, delivered the DG ECFIN Distinguished Lecture 2016. Prominent panellists discussed the current challenges to European economic integration, and dedicated sessions looked into:

Diverging trends and perceptions of global and European integration;
Economic policy strategies revisited;
The labour market and social welfare compact in EMU; and
Integrating financial markets, Banking Union and Capital Market Union.

Programme(308 kB)

ECFIN Distinguished Lecture heading

Fiscal Risk Sharing and Governance for the Euro Area: More Important than Ever(998 kB) Maurice Obstfeld – IMF

Diverging trends and perceptions of global and European integration

Divergences in TFP trends: Facts, prospects and policies(3 MB) Reinhilde Veugelers, KU Leuven
Institutions and the Economic Impacts of Services Trade Policies(393 kB) Bernard Hoekman, Matteo Fiorini - European University Institute
Externalities, Institutions and Public Perception: The Political Economy of European Integration Revisited(2 MB) Hans Peter Grüner - University of Mannheim

Break-out session 1: Economic policy strategies revisited

The Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix in the euro area: Challenges at the zero lower bound(851 kB) Athanasios Orphanides - MIT Sloan School of Management
Does unconventional monetary policy contribute to economic recovery in the euro area? A new approach to evaluating the transmission of monetary policy(551 kB) Peter Tillmann, Lucas Hafemann - University Giessen
Fiscal Multipliers in a Nonlinear World(853 kB) Mathias Trabandt, Jesper Linde, - Freie Universität Berlin

Break-out session 2: The labour market and social welfare compact in EMU

Globalization and income inequality(944 kB) Florian Dorn, Clemens Fuest, Niklas Potrafke - Ifo Institute, Munich & University of Munich (LMU)
Wages and nominal and real unit labour cost differentials in EMU(175 kB) Gustav A. Horn, Andrew Watt - Hans-Boeckler-Foundation
Wages and nominal and real unit labour cost differentials in the EMU: integrated labour markets, imbalances and the wage curve(855 kB) Paulo Santos Monteiro - University of York
EMU and Labour Market Policy: tensions and solutions(430 kB) Giuseppe Bertola - Università di Torino
Structural convergence versus systems competition: the case of social policies in EMU(197 kB) Frank Vandenbroucke

Break-out session 3: Integrating financial markets, Banking Union and Capital Market Union

Financial fragmentation and fiscal policy stabilisation: Coordination or centralisation?(2 MB) Cinzia Alcidi - CEPS Bruxelles
Challenges to Integrated Financial and Capital Markets(631 kB) Angus Armstrong, NIESR London
What lies behind the banking fragmentation inside Europe?(543 kB) Anne-Laure Delatte - CEPII - Visiting lecturer Princeton

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