Programme

 

10.00   Opening of the conference, Daniel Gros, CEPS, Coordinator of TAXBEN

 

10.05    Opening remarks: László Kovács, European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union

 

10.40   General presentation of TAXBEN, Kari Alho, ETLA, Scientific coordinator of TAXBEN

 

10.45   Work package 1. Tax/benefit systems and employment in the EU

 

The WP addresses the effects of various tax/benefit policy measures on the labour market using a similar modelling approach in an EU-15 and a NMS country, the role of minimum wages under endogenous productivity, and evaluates tax/benefit systems and the employment patterns in the NMS.

 

Kari Alho, ETLA, Leader of WP 1

 

Discussant: Aino Salomäki, DG ECFIN, European Commission

 

General discussion on the conclusions of WP 1

 
11.30  Work package 2. The tax/benefit systems in the EU under tax competition

 

The WP evaluates the effects of corporate taxation on flows and stocks of FDI in the EU and the overall economic consequences of the consolidation of the tax base and competition in tax rates on corporate income.

Albert van der Horst, CPB, Leader of WP 2

 

Discussant: Michel Aujean, Director for Analysis and Tax Policies, DG Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission

General discussion on the conclusions of WP 2

 

12.15    Lunch Break

 

13.30  Work package 3. Tax/benefit systems and growth potential of the EU

 

The WP addresses the theoretical and empirical issues of the long-run impacts of tax/benefit systems on productivity and unemployment, and focuses on the catching up, or the lack of it, of the EU countries towards the US, and the role of tax/benefit systems in this using various empirical approaches.

François Langot, CEPREMAP Leader of WP 3

 

Discussant: Joe Grice, Member of the Economic Policy Comitee and Head of the UK Delegation

 

 

14.15   Work package 4. Macroeconomics of the EU tax systems under EMU

 

The WP addresses the effects of tax policies of the EMU countries in combination with the single monetary policy, evaluates empirically the spillovers of fiscal policies within the Euro Area, and considers structural reforms in the EU.

 

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, CEPII, Leader of WP 4

 

Discussant: Marco Buti, Deputy Director General, DG ECFIN, European Commission

Slides 

 

 

15.00    Coffee break

 

15.15  Work package 5. Abating global warming, emissions trade and the need for European coordination

The WP addresses the issue of phasing in long-term climate targets, post-2012 climate policy alternatives, the combined use of energy taxation and tradable permits in the EU, and growth under endogenous energy technology  

Paul Veenendaal, CPB, Leader of WP 5

 

Ulf Moslener, ZEW: Optimal efficient climate policy design

 

Discussant: Barbara Buchner, Research Fellow, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

 

General discussion on the conclusions of WP 5

 

16.15    Andres Võrk, PRAXIS: What the Old EU Members Could Learn from the New  in Tax/Benefit Policies

 

16.30    Final discussion

 

17.15    Closing of the conference