Programme
Day 1 - Wednesday, 28 September 2022
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08:30 - 09:00Registration and welcome coffee
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09:00 - 09:30Welcome address and opening of the Workshop
Daniel Münich
CERGE-EISalvador Barrios
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09:30 - 11:30Session 1 - Accounting for macroeconomic challenges in microsimulation modelling (chair: Sofia Maier, JRC)
- Migration and public finances in the EU, Michael Christl (DG ECFIN), Carlo Fiorio, Tommaso Frattini and Andrea Riganti (University of Milan)
- The ‘Robot Economy’ and optimal tax-transfer reforms, Ugo Colombino (University of Turin) and Nizamul Islam (LISER)
- EUROMOD and E3ME: a micro-macro approach for the evaluation of fiscal policies, Eva Alexandri (Cambridge Econometrics), Francesco Figari, Enrico Longo (University of Insubria) and Cornelia-Madalina Suta (Cambridge Econometrics)
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11:30 - 12:00Coffee break
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12:00 - 13:15Session 2 - Indirect taxes: energy crisis and the green transition (chair: Gerlinde Verbist, University of Antwerp)
- We are all facing the same storm, but not all are in the same boat. A distributional picture of the purchasing power effects of the 2021‐22 energy price shock and compensating measures, Bart Capeau, André Decoster, Duygu Güner, Sheikh Hassan Nabil, Stijn Van Houtven, Jonas Vanderkelen and Toon Vanheukelom (KU Leuven)
- Leveraging EU indirect tax systems to align food prices and climate policy, Bart Capeau (KU Leuven), Ignacio Perez Dominguez (JRC), André Decoster (KU Leuven), Jordan Hristov, Sofia Maier, Mattia Ricci, Toon Vandyck (JRC) and Stijn Van Houtven (KU Leuven)
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13:15 - 14:30Working lunch
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14:30 - 15:50Session 3 - The redistributive role of welfare policies and labour markets (chair: Silvia Navarro Berdeal, JRC)
- Comparison of the contribution of minimum income schemes in Europe to social resilience in periods of crisis, Werner Eichhorst, Holger Bonin, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA Institute of Labour Economics), Paul Marx (University of Duisburg-Essen), Mathias Dolls and Max Lay (ifo Institute)
- Headline Poverty Target Reduction in Ireland and the Role of Work and Social Welfare, Karina Doorley, Seamus O’Malley, Theano Kakoulidou, Helen Russell and Bertrand Maitre (Economic and Social Research Institute)
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15:50 - 16:20Coffee break
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16:20 – 17:30Session 4 - Round table on ‘Distributional Impact Assessment using microsimulation methods’ (chair: Ana Agúndez García, JRC)
- Participants: Carlo Fiorio (University of Milan), Tine Hufkens (Belgian Federal Public Service Social Security), Louise Jensen (DG REFORM), Chrysa Leventi (JRC), Monika Sherwood (DG EMPL)
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20:00 -Informal dinner
Day 2 - Thursday, 29 September 2022
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09:00 – 11:00Session 5 - Non-EU model developments & applications (chair: Matteo Richiardi, University of Essex)
- The distributional impact of Covid-19 crisis and government response in the UK: A monthly perspective, Patryk Bronka, Daria Popova and Matteo Richiardi (University of Essex)
- Adaptive Social Protection in Indonesia – Stress-testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability, Katrin Gasior, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes and Michael Noble (SASPRI)
- Assessing the role of tax-benefit systems in reducing the gender gap in incomes in Latin America, Xavier Jara-Tamayo (LSE), David Rodriguez (Universidad Externado de Colombia), Javier Torres (Universidad del Pacífico), Mariana Dondo (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro) and María Cecilia Deza Delgado (Inter-American Development Bank)
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11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
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11:30 – 13:30Session 6 - EU-Presidency event: For even better public administration: EUROMOD promoting evidence-based policy making in the EU (chair: Klára Kalíšková, CERGE-EI)
- Participants: Salvador Barrios (JRC), Karel Bláha (Czech Deputy Minister for Legislation), Anne Clemenceau (ESTAT), Štěpán Jurajda (Czech Deputy Minister for R&D&I), Christoph Schwierz (DG REFORM), Loukas Stemitsiotis (DG EMPL)
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13:30 – 14:30Working lunch