ECB-IMF Conference on Fiscal Policy & EMU Governance 🎯

The ECB’s seventh biennial conference on Fiscal Policy and EMU Governance is this year co-organised with the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF.

The conference will include a policy panel on ‘Priorities and challenges for fiscal policies in Europe’ (chaired by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board, ECB) and a keynote lecture by George-Marios Angeletos on ‘Monetary-fiscal interactions: HANK vs RANK’ (chaired by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board, ECB).

Moreover, the conference will feature the presentation and discussion of eight cutting-edge academic papers of high policy relevance. The papers address aspects of ‘Fiscal stagnation and sovereign risk’, ‘Monetary and fiscal policy interactions’, ‘Perceptions of public debt and fiscal narratives’, and ‘Geopolitical tensions and fiscal implications of war’.