Fiscal Risk Conference 2017
Fiscal Risk and Public Sector Balance Sheets
ADEMU Workshop
July 6-7, 2017
University of Bonn, Germany
Organizer: Jürgen von Hagen
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"The ADEMU project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement N° 649396"
The European fiscal crisis has spurred new research into the measurement and modeling of fiscal risk. This conference aims at bringing together current theoretical and empirical research into these areas with a special interest in the analysis of public sector balance sheets. Topics include
- Indicators of fiscal risk,
- Macro and financial economics models of fiscal risk and risk indicators
- Assessment of fiscal risk in the context of public sector balance sheets,
- Fiscal risk management, and economic policies addressing fiscal risk.
The conference will start with an informal get-together Wednesday evening July 5, and end July 7 with lunch.
Registration
Registration for participants is now open and will close May 15, 2017. The conference will cover the local cost of accommodation and meals. Limited travel funds are available especially for young researchers.
Please indicate your interest in serving as a discussant.
Applications for registration should be submitted to: Professor Jürgen von Hagen, [Email protection active, please enable JavaScript.]
Location
The conference will take place in Bonn, Germany. Participants traveling by plane can use Cologne-Bonn Airport, Duesseldorf Airport, or Frankfurt Airport. From Duesseldorf or Frankfurt and travel by train generally, use the high-speed train to Siegburg-Bonn.
Program
The conference is part of the ADEMU (A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union) project within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. The Preliminary Program is now available.
Presenter |
Title |
Downloads |
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Vitor Gaspar (IMF) |
A keynote Address | Vitor Gaspar |
Carlos Thomas (Bank of Spain) |
When Fiscal Consolidation Meets Private Deleveraging | Carlos Thomas |
Huixin Bi (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) |
Sovereign Risk and Fiscal (In)Attention | Huixin Bi |
Aitor Erce (ESM, Luxembourg) | Explaining Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Bank Distress and Investment Channel | Aitor Erce |
Niccolo Battistini (ECB) |
Debt Limits and Sovereign Default in the Euro Area | N.Battistini |
Tigran Poghosyan (IMF) | Fiscal Crises | Tigran Poghosyan |
Madina Karamysheva (NRU, Higher School of Economics, Moscow) |
Can Uncertainty Explain the Heterogeneous Output Effects of Fiscal Adjustments? | M.Karamysheva |
George Kopits (Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC) |
Converging to a Comprehensive Risk-Adjusted Fiscal Sustainability Analysis | George Kopits |
Carlos Mulas-Granados (IMF) |
The Blind Side of Public Debt Spikes | C. Mulas Granados |
Gernot Müller (University of Tübingen) |
Does Austerity Pay Off? | G. Müller |
Dominik Thaler (Bank of Spain) |
Austerity to Save the Banks? A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Default with Endogenous Default Cost and a Financial Sector | D. Thaler |