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On Thursday 18 January 2018, DG ECFIN organised its annual workshop on fiscal policy, dedicated this year to "Fiscal policy in an environment of high debt". The workshop was a one-day event with high-profile speakers and discussants from academia and international institutions.
- financing policy | Economic and Monetary Union | economic policy | euro
- Thursday 18 January 2018, 09:00 (CET)
- Brussels, Belgium
- Live streaming available
Files
Bailing out the people? When private debt becomes public - Samba Mbaye, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Kyungla Chae
Bailing out the people? When private debt becomes public - Discussant: Pablo Luis Hernandez de Cos
Government debt and corporate leverage: International evidence - Irem Demirci, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm
Government debt and corporate leverage: International evidence - Discussant: Alessandro Turrini
Lessons learned from past episodes of public debt reduction – Cristina Checherita-Westphal and Pascal Jacquinot
Lessons learned from past episodes of public debt reduction – Discussant: Werner Roeger
Can the central bank alleviate fiscal burdens? – Ricardo Reis
Can the central bank alleviate fiscal burdens? – Discussant: Robert Kollmann
200 years of sovereign haircuts and bond returns – Discussant: Sam Langfield
Practical information
- When
- Thursday 18 January 2018, 09:00 (CET)
- Where
- Charlemagne building, Room: Lord JENKINS, Rue de la Loi 170Charlemagne building, Room: Lord JENKINS, Rue de la Loi 170, 1049 Brussels, Belgium
Report
The workshop was structured in two parts. The first session was focused on challenges for public debt in time of private-sector deleveraging. The second session was concentrated on how to resolve the public debt overhang.
Programme - Fiscal policy in an environment of high debt
Contact: ECFIN-FISCAL-POLICY-2018
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (ecfin-fiscal-policy-2018[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)