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Past Event
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Start dateEnd date
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LocationSeville (Spain)
The workshop focused on linking micro and macro models, in particular with a view to the development of an Overlapping Generations (OLG) model which the unit is currently developing. The objective of the workshop was to share the latest scientific outputs and uses of the models and to discuss research applications and future developments with key players within the academic community.
Programme
Presentations
- Welcome and introduction.
Daniel Daco – European Commission, Head of Fiscal Policy Analysis Unit JRC. B2
Session I:
- Matching between SILC and HBS to compute direct and indirect taxes.
Carmen Marín - Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (Fedea) - Preference based welfare analysis with unobserved heterogeneity.
Liebrecht De Sadeleer - K.U. Leuven - Timely Indicators for Inequality and Poverty Using the Italian Labour Force Survey.
Francesca Carta - Bank of Italy - Financial work incentives and the longterm unemployed: the case of Belgium.
Diego Collado - University of Essex
Session 2:
- The role of automatic stabilisers in the European Union business cycle.
Vanda Almeida - European Commission, DG JRC - Micro-macro model linkage.
Darío Debowicz - University of Swansea - Estimation of fiscal multipliers.
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma - Vienna University of Economics and Business - A Tax-Benefit Macro Agent-Based Model.
Matteo Richiardi - University of Essex
Session 3:
- Effects of inheritance taxes on labour supply of heirs.
Fabian Kindermann - University of Regensburg - Pension systems in an overlapping generations framework.
Miguel Sanchez Romero - Technical University of Vienna - Growing Old Gracefully: Fiscal Policy for an Ageing Society.
Magdalena Zachlod-Jelec and Jonathan Pycroft - European Commission, DG JRC - Pension policy.
Duarte Nuno Semedo Leite - Munich Centre for the Economics of Ageing
Session 4:
- Gender dimension of tax-benefit system.
Marian Fink - Austrian Institute of Economic Research - Gender impact of Budgetary Policy.
Karina Doorley - Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin - Assessing the effects of flat tax reforms: micro estimates from property tax changes in Italy.
Francesco Figari - University of Insubria - Data and modelling for analyzing climate change policies.
Petra Lévay - University of Antwerp - Conclusions and wrap up.
Daniel Daco and Salvador Barrios - European Commission, DG JRC