30 years of FMM: Shaping macroeconomics in times of global transformation

This year´s conference will be held on the dates of 22 till 24 October 2026. In the 1990s, supply-side economics dominated both economic theory and policy worldwide. Government intervention and demand management were widely viewed as outdated, and the United States appeared to be the unquestioned role model for economic success, with the US dollar as the natural global currency. Three decades and several crises later, the global economic landscape has changed profoundly. Free trade is increasingly replaced by trade restrictions and geopolitical rivalries, even among former allies. While this shift undoubtedly creates risks, it may also open opportunities, for example through new alliances focused on climate protection and sustainable development. At the same time, the emergence of a multipolar world is reshaping the international monetary system and may even question the Dollar dominance.

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Latest Developments

Only FMM fellows are eligible to submit papers to the FMM Working Paper Series. FMM fellows may also sponsor papers by non-fellows. In both cases, FMM fellows are invited to submit at fmm-wp[at]boeckler.de.

Matteo Deleidi, Enrico Sergio Levrero, Antonino Lofaro : Income Distribution and the Cost Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Japan, the UK, and the US

This paper assesses the impact of a monetary policy tightening on prices and income distribution. We estimate Structural Vector Autoregressive models for Japan, the UK, and the US over the period 1960Q1–2019Q4.

to the FMM Working Paper

Simon Fløj Thomsen : Empirical Stock-Flow-Consistent models, Environmentally Extended Input-Output modelling, Ecological macroeconomics

This paper reviews the development of Ecological Stock-Flow-Consistent Input-Output models as an emerging alternative to mainstream climate-economy modelling frameworks.

to the FMM Working Paper

Giovanna Ciaffi, Matteo Deleidi, Mariana Mazzucato : Directed Innovation Policies and the Supermultiplier: New Evidence

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of public R&D investment in the US economy from 1947 to 2018, employing alternative empirical approaches based on Structural VARs, pure shocks derived from a counterfactual VAR, and Instrumental-Variable Local Projections.

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Matthieu Bordenave, Giovanna Ciaffi : Measuring Green Fiscal Multipliers: Heterogeneity in European Countries

This paper evaluates the macroeconomic impact of green public spending by quantifying the responses of GDP, private investment, employment, and labour productivity across 30 European countries from 1995 to 2020.

to the FMM Working Paper

10th International FMM Summer School

The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economic policies to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups, an SFC lab, and a poster session.

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European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies

From 2012 onwards, the papers & proceedings of the FMM conference are published each year in a special issue.