Funded research projects

Public diplomacy, policy research and outreach devoted to the EU and EU-Korea relations

Description: Analysis of the crisis response of the EU and Korea in terms of fiscal, monetary and financial policies coupled with an assessment of possible EU-Korean cooperation on the specific policy issues.
Project duration: September 2011 – January 2013

Development of the New Energy and Infrastructure to match Europe 2050 Energy Agenda

Description:  The  aim of the project is to give policy recommendations on the public support for the deployment of new energy and transport infrastructure needed to meet the 2050 Energy Agenda.
Project duration: August 2011 – November 2011

Provision of expertise in global financial reform after the crisis

Description:  Contribution into Korean Institute for International Economic Policy volume “Changes in the International economic order since the financial crisis".
Project duration: May 2011 – October 2011

Determinants of productivity growth in Europe

Description: Research project aiming at better understanding the long term determinants of economic growth, and in particular the contribution of R&D expenditures on growth.
Project duration: May 2011 – December 2011

Evaluation of IMF Euro area surveillance

Description: Analysis of a set of explicit issues (country, Euro-area wide, surveillance process issues), and focus on country cases, relevant for addressing these issues.
Project duration: March 2011 - June 2011

The role of the European parliament in the European semester

Description: Assessment of the principles behind the European Semester and its work in practice and Analysis of the role of the European Parliament in the European Semester, along with national parliaments, and how to better design the role of the EP.
Project duration: March 2011– June 2012

Further lessons from ICT innovative industries (FLY)

Description:  Analysis of recent IPTS micro-level studies on emergent innovative ICT technologies and assessment on the capacity of the European industry to stay competitive in the related markets.
Project duration: January 2011 – June 2011

Assessing the financial landscape and formulating milestones for monetary and financial integration in ASEAN

Description: Provide information on the European framework for financial and capital market integration; assess differences between the European Union and ASEAN; and provide lessons that analyze key success factors and failures, necessary facilitating frameworks, and threshold indicators for financial liberalization.
Project duration: January 2011 – August 2011

Reform options for the global reserve currency system and their implications for the EU economy

Description:  Study analyzing and evaluating different options for reform and/or scenarios for plausible market-driven developments of the global reserve currency system.
Project duration: September 2010 – August 2011

Development of the Asia Europe Economic Forum (AEEF)

Description: Formal network supporting the organization of a 2010 and a 2011 conferences and the setting up of dissemination activities of the Asia Europe Economic Forum (AEEF).
Project duration: January 2010 - January 2011

The transatlantic relationship in an era of growing economic multipolarity

Description: Research project analyzing the dynamics of the economic and political subject areas that will, in the coming years, dominate the policy agenda of both the external EU-US engagement with major emerging economies, as well as bilaterally across the Atlantic.
Project duration: January 2010 – December 2011

Provision of external expertise in monetary and economic policies (monetary experts panel)

Description: Provision of briefing notes which give a critical and independent analysis of the monetary policy of the European Central Bank as well as evaluate general issues in connection with monetary, economic and fiscal policies in the EU.
Project duration: September 2009 - August 2014

International cooperation in times of global crisis: views from G20 countries

Description: High-level economic seminar  on the key current global financial and economic policy challenges, bringing together academics and policymakers from all G20 countries and identifying policy implications for Europe, Asian and the Americas.
Project duration: September 2009 -

Energy and climate exchange series @ Bruegel

Description: The series intends to be a reference discussion forum in Brussels for professionals in the energy and climate change fields and other interested parties from various communities (academia and think tanks, policy institutions, selected press, business, NGOs, civil society) to discuss state-of-the-art development in the economics of energy and climate change policies.
Project duration: September 2009 - June 2010

Briefing Paper: European Economic Recovery Programmes

Description: Briefing paper presenting the latest breakdown of the fiscal stimuli in member states.
Project duration: January 2009 – February 2009

Strategic Partnership between the German Marshall Fund (GMF) and Bruegel

Description: Strategic partnership grant agreement between GMF and Bruegel leveraging each institution's intellectual expertise, convening capabilities, and networks in Washington and across Europe.
Project duration: January 2009 – December 2011

The euro at 10: time for greater transatlantic economic cooperation?

Description: Transatlantic dialogue on major policy issues in the context of the international development of the euro and promotion of dialogue within civil society.
Project duration: September 2008 - August 2010

EFIGE - “European Firms in a Global Economy: internal policies for external competitiveness”

Description: Assessment of the internationalization patterns of European firms through the creation of a pilot dataset, based on survey of firm-level data in seven countries (AT, FR, DE, HU, IT, ES, GB).
Project duration: September 2008 - September 2012

Workshops in the Framework of the French Presidency

Description: Organisation of two workshops in the Framework of the French Presidency, in the aftermath of the EC Communication of its climate change action plan.
Project duration: June 2008 - December 2008