The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Workshop on "A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union" will run for 2 days and will take place online June 16-17, 2021.
This workshop is sponsored by the Pierre Werner Chair of the European University Institute (EUI) and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
The workshop covers new theoretical and applied research on financial, fiscal and monetary policies (and institutions) that can strengthen the euro area, as well as other economies, as to make them more resilient to financial, economic and social crises.
Specific objectives include, but are not restricted to:
- recovering from a severe (Covid) crisis: rethinking growth and stabilization policies
- the sovereign debt legacy and its sustainability
- rules and institutional mechanisms for controlling macroeconomic and financial weaknesses and imbalances
- the challenges of the digital post-Covid economy
- the inequality legacy and fiscal and monetary policies in heterogeneous societies and unions
- the international monetary and financial system after Covid
Keynote speakers
- Veronica Guerrieri (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
- Loukas Karabarbounis (University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Workshop organizers
- Mark Aguiar (Princeton University)
- Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University)
- Ramon Marimon (EUI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
- Hugo Rodríguez Mendizábal (IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE)
- Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
- Pedro Teles (Católica University Lisbon and Bank of Portugal)
- Konstantinos Theodoridis (European Stability Mechanism)
Previous editions
Speakers appear in the order in which they presented during the workshop.
- 2019 Edition
- 2018 Edition
- 2017 Edition
This workshop was titled, "Macroeconomic and Financial Imbalances and Spillovers."