Video / presentation Welcoming remarks by Roel Beetsma (Member, European Fiscal Board) . Video Keynote address by Paolo Gentiloni (European Commissioner for Economy)Chair: Niels Thygesen (Chair, European Fiscal Board) . Session 1 video European fiscal rulesChair: Cláudia Braz (Central Bank of Portugal) . Presentation Paper Eckhard Janeba (University of Mannheim): ‘Consistent flexibility: Enforcement of fiscal rules through political incentives’, with Valerio Dotti (Washington University in St. Louis) . Presentation Paper Martin Larch (European Fiscal Board): ‘Do EU fiscal rules support counter-cyclical fiscal policy?’, with Eloïse Orseau (European Fiscal Board), and Wouter Van der Wielen (JRC Sevilla) . Presentation Gilles Mourre (DG ECFIN, European Commission): ‘Performance of spending rules at the EU level – a quantitative assessment’ with Philipp Mohl (DG ECFIN, European Commission) . Presentation Discussant: Philippe Martin (Sciences Po) . Session 2 video Central fiscal capacitiesChair: Jeromin Zettelmeyer (International Monetary Fund) . PresentationPaper Mathias Dolls (Ifo Institute and CESifo): ‘An unemployment re-insurance scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and redistributive effects’ . PresentationPaper Ramon Marimon (European University Institute): ‘On the design of a European unemployment insurance system’ with Árpád Ábrahám (University of Bristol), João Brogueira de Sousa (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), and Lukas Mayr (University of Essex) . PresentationPaper Lars Feld (German Council of Economic Advisors & University of Freiburg): ‘On a fiscal capacity for the euro area’ . Presentation Discussant: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré (Paris School of Economics) . Session 3 video Blue-sky proposalsChair: Niels Thygesen (Chair, European Fiscal Board) . PresentationPaper Keynote address by Olivier Blanchard (Peterson Institute for International Economics):‘Revisiting the EU fiscal framework in an era of low interest rates’ with Álvaro Leandro (CaixaBank Research),and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (International Monetary Fund) . Presentation Clemens Fuest (President CESifo) . Presentation Thomas Wieser (Bruegel) . Video Panel Discussion: Rethinking the EU Fiscal Framework Jean Pisani-Ferry (Moderator) (Sciences-Po and EUI)Mateusz Szczurek (Member, European Fiscal Board)Guido Tabellini (University of Bocconi)Maarten Verwey (DG ECFIN, European Commission)Beatrice Weder di Mauro (CEPR) . Video / Presentation Concluding remarks by Massimo Bordignon (Member, European Fiscal Board)
