Training and workshops: 7th JRC Fiscal Policy Modelling Workshop
LOCATION
Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Europe
FROM
13/03/2025
TO
14/03/2025
This workshop gathers leading researchers and policy analysts and focuses on the use of economic modelling for fiscal policy analysis.
This year’s workshop covers corporate taxation, macroeconomic modelling with household heterogeneity, and tax-benefit modelling at household level. Contributions in each session will be linked directly to the ongoing policy work and debate.
The workshop will take place in hybrid format over two days. All speakers and chairpersons will be present at our site in Seville.
The workshop is organised by the Fiscal Policy Analysis unit of the Joint Research Centre.
Event Schedule:
- Thursday 13 March 2025, 09:15 - Friday 14 March 2025, 15:30 (CET)
- Location: Seville, Spain
- Live streaming available
Programme
| Date and Time (CET) | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Mar 2025, 09:15 - 09:30 | Opening remarks | Salvador Barrios, Head of Unit (JRC B2) |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Keynote Speaker | A novel modelling approach to improve our understanding of the interaction between market changes and inequality - Cathal O'Donoghue, National University of Ireland Galway |
| 10:30 - 13:30 | Session 1: Corporate taxation | Chair: Ana Xavier (European Commission, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union - TAXUD) |
| 10:30 - 11:05 | Knowledge without borders: the global effects of R&D tax incentives | Roxanne Raabe, University of Münster |
| 11:05 - 11:40 | Evasion, avoidance and the VAT threshold | Christos Kotsogiannis, University of Exeter |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Coffee break | |
| 12:10 - 12:45 | Corporate taxation, prices and inequality | Sébastien Laffitte, THEMA (CY Cergy Paris University) |
| 12:45 - 13:20 | Corporate taxation and market power wealth | Lidia Brun Carrasco, JRC B2 |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Closing remarks by the chair of the session | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Working lunch | |
| 14:30 - 17:20 | Session 2: Macroeconomic modelling with household heterogeneity | Chair: Nicola Gagliardi (European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs) |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Debt sustainability and fiscal consolidation in HANKS | Selma Malmberg, Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses Applications (CEPREMAP) |
| 15:05 - 15:40 | Optimal income redistribution | Pavel Brendler, University of Nottingham |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 16:35 | Optimal fiscal policy during the cost-of-living crisis | Myroslav Pidkuyko, Banco de España |
| 16:35 - 17:10 | Fiscal Space and Pension Limits: the Role of Individual Pension Incentives | Paula Sánchez Gil, JRC, Fiscal Policy Analysis unit |
| 17:10 - 17:20 | Closing remarks by the chair of the session | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Networking dinner | |
| 14 Mar 2025, 10:00 - 12:50 | Session 3: Tax-benefit systems for households – Energy poverty and the green transition | Chair: Alessia Fulvimari (European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) |
| 10:00 - 10:35 | The distributional impact of carbon pricing: A global perspective of a global problem | Denisa Sologon, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) |
| 10:35 - 11:10 | A demand system approach to model energy poverty | Miguel Angel Tovar Reaños, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Ireland |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:05 | A demand-side analysis of the impact of the EU ETS2 and the Social Climate Fund | David Klenert, JRC, Fiscal Policy Analysis unit |
| 12:05 - 12:40 | Assessing the distributional effects of carbon pricing in road transport on Spanish households | Iñaki Arto, BC3 Basque Centre For Climate Change |
| 12:40 - 12:50 | Closing remarks by the chair of the session | |
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Working lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Roundtable: Policy insights for research – Special topic: Affordable housing in the EU | Moderator: Salvador Barrios (JRC) |
