The Portuguese Public Finance Council, in partnership with Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, attained in December 10 the webinar “Which fiscal rules do we need after the Covid-19 Crisis?”.
Integrated in the CFP's 2020 Conference Cycle, the webinar started at 14:15 pm on the Zoom platform with interventions of the CFP and FEP representatives. Charles Wyplosz was the keynote speaker of the session that had George Kopits, Maria Manuel Pinho, Paul De Grauwe and Álvaro Aguiar as speakers, divided in two panels.
The webinar’s conclusions were held by Carlos Marinheiro.
The first conference of this cycle – "Economic Growth and Productivity in Portugal" – took place on March 4 in Coimbra, in partnership with the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and CeBER. The second conference took place on October 7, online, in partnership with Nova SBE.
The webinar was held in English and open to the public.
Date of last update: 10/12/2020
Programa
Opening Session
Nazaré da Costa Cabral, chair of the Senior Board, CFP
José Varejão, director, FEP
The fiscal rule: simple, flexible and binding
Charles Wyplosz, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Panel I: What have we learned for the road ahead?
George Kopits, member of the Senior Board, CFP
Maria Manuel Pinho, professor, FEP
Coffee Break
Panel II: New rules for a new era?
Conclusions
Carlos Marinheiro, member of the Senior Board, CFP