EUROMOD ANNUAL MEETING - 2019

The EUROMOD Annual Meeting, organised jointly by the JRC and the University of Milan on 26-27 September 2019, is held to summarise the state of play of the development & maintenance of the EUROMOD model, for planning the coming work, and for exchanging views on the development of the model.

Programme

• Agenda

Presentations

• Welcome and introduction.
  Daniel Daco and Carlo Fiorio - European Commission and University of Milan.

Session 1: EUROMOD Transfer and new developments

Part I:

• Transfer of EUROMOD to the European Commission State of play, experiences, and plans for 2020.

- Looking back: considerations by JRC, UoE and ESTAT on the work done.
Jack Kneeshaw - ISER, University of Essex

- Looking forward: updates and plans for 2020, including governance structure and memorandum of understanding.
Alberto Tumino - European Commission, DG JRC

• Open discussion on experiences by NTs who underwent the transfer

Part II:

• Role of EUROSTAT.
  Albane Gourdol - European Commission, DG ESTAT
• Discussion: Q&A
• EUROMOD functionalites – new developments.
  Kostas Manios and Estefania Vazquez Torres - University of Essex (ISER) and European Commission (DG JRC)

Session 2 Research activities using EUROMOD

Part I:

• Uses of EUROMOD over the past year.
  Jack Kneeshaw - ISER, University of Essex
• Uses of EUROMOD by the JRC.
  Salvador Barrios - European Commission, DG JRC
• Non-take-up of social assistance in 2009 and minimum income benefit in 2015 based on EU-SILC register data.
  Michael Fuchs - European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
• Linking EUROMOD with CGE model.
  Konstantins Benkovskis, Anna Pluta and Anna Zasova - Bank of Latvia (SSE Riga) and BICEPS
• BELMOD : Adapting EUROMOD for the use of administrative data in Belgium.
  Gerlinde Verbist - University of Antwerp

Part II:

• The AMMATSBC project: results and experiences.
  Ivica Urban - Institute of Public Finance
• The tax structure of an economy in crisis: Greece 2009-2019.
  Chrysa Leventi - Greek Ministry of Finance
• Polish personal income tax reforms in the context of a decade of wage growth in central europe.
  Kajetan Trzcinski - Centre for Economic Analysis, CenEA
• Conclusions and closure of meeting
  Carlo Fiorio, Daniel Daco, Didier Dupré and Matteo Richiardi - University of Milan, European Commission (DG JRC and DG ESTAT), and University of Essex (ISER)

Venue

Milan, IT