Fourteen papers present overviews of key areas for future economic policy and demonstrate how economic research can contribute to good policy decisions and how economics research can be motivated and made relevant by topical policy questions. Papers discuss innovation and growth--the Schumpeterian perspective; EU dual labor markets--consequences and potential reforms; a survey of population, migration, aging, and health; education systems--assignment, admissions, accountability, and autonomy; competition and regulation in markets for goods and services--a survey with emphasis on digital markets; winners and losers of globalization--sixteen challenges for measurement and theory; economic approaches to energy, environment, and sustainability.