4th SEEK Conference: Public Finance and Income Distribution in Europe

Conference

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is pleased to announce the annual conference of its research programme "Strengthening Efficiency and Competitiveness in the European Knowledge Economies" ("SEEK). Entitled "Public Finance and Income Distribution in Europe", the conference will focus on fiscal policy and public debt, income and wealth inequality in Europe, and prospects for a European fiscal union – topics at the heart of the current academic and policy debates. Recommendations to tackle these challenges range from improved fiscal policy rules and crisis resolution mechanisms, to joint liability for government debt or full fiscal and economic union including a fiscal capacity at the European level. At the same time it is important to analyse the implications on welfare and income distribution of these proposed policy measures.

For the scientific sessions of our conference, we seek high-quality academic papers in areas such as:

  • EU debt crisis
  • Fiscal policy in the EU
  • Prospects of an EU fiscal union
  • Income and wealth inequality
  • Redistributive preferences
  • Optimal redistributive taxation
  • Financial sector taxation
  • Wealth and inheritance taxation
  • Fiscal competition and the (erosion of the) welfare state

Policy Keynote Speakers

  • Hans Eichel, former German Federal Minister of Finance (1999-2005)
  • Vitor Gaspar, former Portuguese Finance Minister (2011-2013)

Scientific Keynote Speakers

  • Hans Peter Grüner (University of Mannheim)
  • Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics)

SEEK Scientific Board

  • Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Bronwyn Hall (University of California Berkeley)
  • Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich)
  • Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School)
  • Steve Machin (University College London)
  • Pierre Mohnen (UNUMERIT Maastricht)
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)
  • Clemens Fuest (ZEW Mannheim)
  • Georg Licht (ZEW Mannheim)

Local Organisers

  • Clemens Fuest (ZEW Mannheim)
  • Friedrich Heinemann (ZEW Mannheim)
  • Andreas Peichl (ZEW Mannheim)

Programme

Programme (as PDF, 272 KB)

Call for Papers

Call for Papers (as PDF, 131 KB)

Paper Submission

You may submit a full paper (including an abstract of 100-200 words) or an extended abstract of 500-600 words via e-mail to: seek@zew.de (subject "Submission 2014 SEEK conference").

Deadline for Paper Submission

February 16, 2014

Venue

15. – 16.05.2014

4th SEEK Conference: Public Finance and Income Distribution in Europe

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Professor Thomas Piketty at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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ZEW President Professor Clemens Fuest opening the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Hans Eichel, former German Finance Minister, during his speech at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Hans Eichel, Thomas Kohl, Professor Vitor Gaspar, Dr. Franziska Brantner, Dr. Nils Schmid and Professor Clemens Fuest (l-r) at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Nils Schmid, Baden-Württemberg state minister for economic affairs and deputy Minister President of Baden-Württemberg, introduce the topic of the conference. © ZEW
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Giuseppe Bertola, Karl Pichelmann, Friedrich Heinemann, Franziska Brantner and Kai Konrad (left to right during the round table discussion © ZEW
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Friedrich Heinemann and Franziska Brantner (left to right) during the round table discussion. © ZEW
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Kai Konrad during the round table discussion entitled “Fiscal Union in Europe?”. © ZEW
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Interested visitors read posters for the event. © ZEW
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Vitor Gaspar during his speech at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Konrad Stahl delivering his speech at the conference dinner. © ZEW
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Professor Thomas Piketty at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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ZEW research group head Professor Andreas Peichl at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Audience members at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Professor Clemens Fuest, Professor Thomas Piketty, Professor Hans Peter Grüner, Thomas Kohl and Professor Andreas Peichl (l-r) at the 4th SEEK Conference. © ZEW
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Corporate Taxation and Public Finance Inequality and Public Policy
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Katharina Kober
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