2009 Research Programme
The research programme is organised under three main headings:
- Immediate options for crisis management addresses the immediate policy choices at European and global level, as well as participation in policy-oriented debate on crisis developments and policy options.
- The crisis and the reshaping of the world economy focuses on the major channels through which the crisis will affect the future and how immediate policy choices made under pressure of time may subsequently affect economic and policy developments in the decades to come.
- The longer-term challenges is for projects representing ongoing investment in areas where Bruegel has or intends to build comparative advantage and contribute whatever the immediate economic circumstances.
In addition Bruegel published a special project: a series of 'memos' addressed to the new European Commission and new European Parliament drawing on Bruegel research and institutional expertise and setting out key choices for those who will govern the EU in the next five years.
The programme comprises ten individual research projects, some of which follow up on projects launched in previous years.
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Asia Europe Economic Forum (AEEF)
With a growing recognition for the need to diversify and consolidate the linkage between economists and practitioners from Asia and Europe, five institutions from Asia and Europe agreed in 2006 to establish an Asia Europe Economic Forum to serve as a high level forum giving Asian and European policy experts an occasion for in-depth research-based exchanges on global issues of mutual interest.
European Firms in a Global Economy (EFIGE)
The EFIGE project examines the pattern of internationalisation of European firms. It is the follow-up project of the EFIM project - European Firms and International Markets, which brought together, in 2006, six research centers from six EU countriessince coordinated by Bruegel and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. The objective was to create a network working on policy relevant questions that are best treated using firm-level trade and FDI data.
The Euro at Ten: The Next Global Currency?
Brussels, 16 June 2009
Adam Posen, deputy director of the PIIE and Bruegel Board member, participated in the launch as newly appointed external member on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Presentation of the book by Jean Pisani-Ferry and Adam Posen were followed by a panel discussion with Joaquin Almunia, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, Chairman of the Board of Notre Europe and former Italian Economy and Finance Minister.
After the storm: The future face of Europe's financial system
IMF/National Bank of Belgium/ Bruegel Conference, 25 March 2009, Brussels
The conference, which follows in the footsteps of a joint IMF-Bruegel conference held in February 2007, examined what public policies are needed to achieve a better performing and more stable financial system in Europe. The event brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from Europe and around the globe as the world tries to navigate a storm that has hit many financial systems and has delivered significant setbacks to the ambition of creating a single EU financial market. Participants focused in particular on the impact public policies may have, and discussed in detail the proposals to reform the EU‘s financial stability arrangements put forward by the Larosière Group, which was represented at the conference by two of its members and its rapporteur.
Research initiatives
Research topics
- Budgetary and monetary policies
- Climate change and energy
- Competition and single market
- Currencies and International finance
- Emerging economies and development
- Financial markets and regulation
- European and global governance
- Labour, migration and ageing
- Research, innovation and growth
- Trade, investment and competitiveness
- New Member States, Enlargement and Neighbourhood