Employment Effects of Services Trade Reform
25-27 November, 2015
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade,
TiSA,
TTIP
Driven by spectacular technological advances and the emergence and intensification of global value chains (GVCs), trade in services has been the most dynamic part of global trade over recent years. The concurrent rise of services trade provisions in existing and forthcoming trade agreements bears testimony
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Jobs in Global Value Chains
2 October 2015
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Employment,
Global Value Chains,
Services Trade
New ways of measuring global trade flows provide for a fresh look on how trade works. Data on trade in value added terms often displays substantial differences with data on trade measured in gross value. The implications for our understanding of how trade and trade
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Monetary Policy and the Distribution of Income and Wealth
September 11-12, 2015
Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Inequality,
Inflation,
QE
There has been intense focus recently on inequality in income and wealth across and within countries. Both developed and developing countries have experienced a marked increase in the gap between high and low income households, as well as an increase in the concentration of income
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Fundamental Tax Reform: The Purple Tax Plan
1 June 2015
Fiscal,
Roundtables | Tags:
Consumption Tax,
Corporate Tax,
Inheritance Tax
Roundtable on fundamental tax reform with Laurence Kotlikoff and a focus on his "Purple Tax Plan". Professor Kotlikoff is Professor of Economics at Boston University, as well as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Director of the Tax Analysis
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Tax Policy 2020 – Fundamentals, Effects and Scenarios
7 November 2014
Conferences,
Fiscal | Tags:
BEPS,
Carbon Tax,
Corporate Tax,
Income Tax,
Inheritance Tax,
Wealth Tax
Conference on international and Swiss tax policymaking, its long-term effects and scenarios for tax reforms moving forward.
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At Whose Service? Employment Effects of Services Trade Reform in the MENA Region and Sub-Saharan Africa
2 October 2014
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Employment,
Services Trade
Trade in services is the new frontier in international trade theory and practice. Modern trade agreements go beyond the removal of traditional barriers to goods trade, such as tariffs, and increasingly deal with issues previously thought to be of strictly domestic concern, notably in the
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Monetary Policy and Sustainability
16-20 June, 2014
Conferences,
Monetary | Tags:
Inequality,
QE,
Resource Security
Monetary policy has wide ranging effects on the economy and society as a whole. The actions taken by central banks with regard to interest rate levels, inflation targets, and exchange rates are key factors in investment decisions and play a significant role in the distribution
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Monetary Policy and Resource Security
22-24 April, 2014
Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Commodities,
Energy,
Resource Security
Resource security – the capacity to meet current and future demand for food, water, land, energy and minerals – has been a key concern for policymakers for a long time. As global consumption levels rise, debates on how to safeguard natural capital are moving up
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Monetary Policy and Inequality
3-4 April 2014
Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Inequality
The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta organized a workshop on Monetary Policy and Inequality on 3-4 April 2014 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, income and wealth inequality has been rising in
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What is Sustainable Monetary Policy?
17 February 2014
Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Alternative Currencies,
Commodities,
Financial Stability
Colloquium on monetary policy, its impact on financial markets in general and commodity markets in particular, the role of deregulation in the financial crisis, and the potential of alternative currencies.
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