Day 1 - Thursday, 26 September 2024
- 09:00 - 09:15Welcome address
Alain Trannoy
AMSESalvador Barrios
JRC - 09:15 - 11:15Session 1 - Contrasting the rising cost of living - chair: Antonio F. Amores (JRC)
- Sara Riscado (Bank of Portugal) - Fiscal drag in theory and in practice. A European perspective
- Mattia Ricci (JRC) - The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on European households
- Maria Flevotomou (Bank of Greece) - High inflation and fiscal policies
- 11:15 - 11:40Break
- 11:40 - 13:00Session 2 - Fiscal policies and public health - chair: Hugo Cruces (JRC)
- Matteo Richiardi (University of Essex) - The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences
- Gemma Riera Mallol (JRC) - The redistributive aspects of financing healthcare systems
- 13:00 - 14:00Break
- 14:00 - 15:20Session 3 - Impact of fiscal policies - chair: Eva Schoenwald (DG EMPL)
- Francesco Figari (Univerisità Piemonte Orientale) - Analysing the effects of the 2022 Italian tax-benefit reform at local level using spatial microsimulation
- Alain Trannoy (AMSE) - Housing policy impacts on poverty and inequality in Europe
- 15:20 - 15:45Break
- 15:45 – 17:00Session 4 - Keynote speech - chair: Ana Agúndez (JRC)Olivier Bargain (University of Bordeaux) - Non-EU tax systems: efficiency (formalization disincentives), equity (curbing globalization-driven inequality) and stabilization
Day 2 - Friday, 27 September 2024
- 09:15 – 11:15Session 5 - Global South model developments and applications - chair: Anna Zasova (UNU-WIDER)
- Anna Zasova (UNU-WIDER) - Brief overview of EUROMOD-based model development outside the EU
- Anna Zasova (UNU-WIDER) - Vulnerability to climate shocks in Zambia: how does the tax-benefit system fare in the face of climate shocks?
- Katrin Gasior (Saspri) - The role of social protection for a just transition in developing and emerging economies
- Luis Vargas (Universidad de Costa Rica) - Redistribution and financial disincentives to formal employment in Latin America
- 11:15 – 11:40Break
- 11:40 – 13:00Session 6 - Distributional analysis with administrative data - chair: Andrea Papini (JRC)
- Arne Depoortere (Belgium FPS Social Security) - The usage of administrative data in distributional analyses
- Nerijus Černiauskas (Lithuanian Ministry of Finance) - The earnings distribution in Lithuania: the role of the minimum wage