This study provides an early evaluation of the assistance programmes implemented by the Troika in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. The study assesses the economic impact of the programmes and the consequences of their particular institutional set-up.

The strengthening of the European Union’s fiscal rules with the approval of the so-called ‘six-pack’, and the parallel worsening of economic conditions in Europe, re-opened…

This policy contribution discusses in detail how a future banking union could be organised by examining seven fundamental choices that decision makers will need to…

The euro crisis and subsequent policy responses have challenged the assumptions underpinning the euro-area's governance, and the relationship between the European Union's euro and non-euro countries.…

This policy brief argues that the euro area's shortcomings have become abundantly clear. It was set up without powers of strict surveillance over macroeconomic imbalances,…

This working paper  argues that the international position of the US dollar is likely to erode in the coming years, though the speed of the…

This report evaluates International Monetary Fund surveillance of the euro area in the years before the financial crisis and during 2008-10.

This report examines how the international monetary system (IMS) might evolve and the implications of different scenarios for the euro area over the next fifteen…

The economic profiles of southern Mediterranean countries (SMCs) bear some resemblance to those of south-eastern European countries and some former Soviet republics at the beginning…

As in the two previous editions of Think Global – Act European (TGAE), directed by Elvire Fabry, Senior Research Fellow at Notre Europe, this report…