On Thursday afternoon 28 January 2021, DG ECFIN organised its annual workshop on fiscal policy, dedicated this year to "The role of fiscal policy in mitigating the COVID-19 crisis". The workshop was organised in form of a webinar with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions.
- financing policy | Economic and Monetary Union | economic policy | euro
- jueves, 28 de enero de 2021, 15.00 (CET)
- Solo online
- Streaming en vivo disponible
Programa
- 28 ene 2021, 15.00 - 15.25 (CET)
Introduction - Paolo Gentiloni (European Commission)
- 15.25 - 16.00 (CET)
Keynote speech:Tackling the fallout from COVID-19 - Laurence Boone (OECD)
- 16.00 - 17.30 (CET)
High-level panel followed by QNAModerator: Maarten Verwey (DG ECFIN)Panellists:
- Agnès Benassy-Quéré (DGTrésor)
- Vítor Gaspar (IMF)
- Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago)
- Niels Thygesen (European Fiscal Board)
- 17.30 - 17.45 (CET)
Conclusions - Maarten Verwey (DG ECFIN)
Información práctica
- Cuándo
- jueves, 28 de enero de 2021, 15.00 (CET)
- Dónde
- Solo online
Informe
The webinar was structured in two parts. Following an introduction by Commissioner Gentiloni, Laurence Boone (OECD) gave a keynote speech on “Tackling the fallout from COVID-19”. A high-level policy panel will then discuss the role of fiscal policy in mitigating the effects of the COVID crisis.