Central Banks and Policy Coherence
23 November 2021 | Online
Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Governing Finance
Modern central banks play an outsized role in our economic development through their central role in both monetary policy and financial regulation.
Many are now arguing that central banks should discharge their role in line with public policy on issues such as climate change, greening the
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Tax Expenditures and Domestic Revenue Mobilisation
9-11 November 2021 | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Informality,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
Tax expenditures (TEs) are tax benefits that governments use worldwide to pursue various policy goals such as attracting investment, boosting innovation and fighting poverty. TEs are costly, as they lower government revenue and the tax liability of the beneficiary. The global average of tax revenues
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Global Tax Expenditures Database – Official Launch
16 June 2021, 15.00-17.30 CET | Online
Conferences,
Fiscal | Tags:
Inequality,
Sustainability,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) have launched the «Global Tax Expenditures Database» (GTED): www.GTED.net with an online conference on 16 June 2021. The key findings of the GTED Flagship report presented at
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Digital Trade Policies – Charting a Way Towards More Transparency
3 June, 2021 15.00-16.00 CET | Online
Panel,
Trade | Tags:
Digitalization,
Trade Policy
The digital transformation of economic activities, including international trade, has accelerated during the Covid-19 crisis. Consequently, policies affecting trade in the digital economy have gained prominence in the WTO as well as regional trade agreements. The Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on e-commerce that is currently
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Globalization and Digitalization – Interconnections Between Taxation, Trade and Investment
3, 10, 17, 24 June and 1 July, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Services Trade,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes
Recent decades have witnessed structural changes in the way production is organized. Trade and investment liberalization together with technological developments, notably in transport and communications, have substantially reduced trade and foreign investment costs and enabled global value chains, supported by global finance, to proliferate. As
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Tax Incentives for Investment. Old and New Challenges for International Trade
24 June, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Incentives
Despite their stated goals including attracting FDI, creating employment and boosting R&D and innovation, tax incentives for investment are often ineffective. Indeed, several provisions are redundant and hence end-up triggering costly windfall gains. They can also trigger negative spillover effects on third countries, e.g. when
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Digital Taxes and Trade in Services
10 June, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digital Tax,
Services Trade
International income tax rules rest on the principles that taxes are paid in the jurisdiction where the company has physical presence, taxes are based on profits, and there are profit allocation rules. These tax rules need to be updated as economic activities go digital –
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Reforming Tax Expenditures – Challenges and Barriers in the United States
14 April, 2021 20.00 CET, 14.00 EDT | Online
Fiscal,
Panel | Tags:
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
The panel addressed the main challenges and barriers holding back reform of the tax expenditure system in the US including:
The politics of tax expenditures
“Negative” and “positive” tax expenditures
Collecting racial, ethnic, and gender information
Improving transparency in public finance management.
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Monetary Policy Operations and Financial Regulation to Green the Financial System
22 February, 2021 18.00 CET | Online
Monetary,
Panel | Tags:
Asset Purchases,
Financial Regulation,
Monetary Policy Operations,
Targeted Refinancing Lines
The panel discussion will explore policy options – large-scale asset purchases, long-term refinancing operations, collateral framework and prudential regulation – to green the financial system, as well as debate their feasibility and effectiveness.
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Strengthening Climate Risk Metrics – A Roadmap for 2021
23 February 2021 | Online | By Invitation
Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Climate Risk,
Financial Supervision,
Monetary Policy Operations,
Risk Metrics
Climate risks are financial risks. As such they must be incorporated into all investment decisions, including those by banks, investors and asset managers. They must also become an integral part of central banks’ monetary policy operations, as well as of financial supervision – both on
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