Fiscal policy after the crisis (ECFIN workshop)

This workshop will be a one-day event featuring two sessions of analytical presentations followed by discussants’ analysis and debate.

• The first session will gather papers analysing fiscal policy within a low-inflation context.
• The second session will include selected papers on the topic of fiscal policy after the crisis, by analysing developments in debt, investments and inequality.

High-profile authors and discussants from the academia and international institutions will distil lessons on how to best conduct fiscal policy in an environment of high debt and low inflation in which nominal interest rates cannot decrease further. In this context, low growth, related to low investment exacerbates social challenges making the choices of fiscal policy makers very hard.