Policy Brief
What are the arguments for and against centralisation of insurance supervision? What would be the scope of a possible insurance union, and what would the legal basis be? How rapid should the move to insurance union be? This Policy Brief sets out to answer these questions.
Policy Contribution
Following the financial crisis, the question of how to handle a big bank’s collapse has come to the fore. This Policy Contribution evaluates the obstacles to resolvability that the legal and operational structures of the large euro-area banks could pose to the European Union’s new resolution regime.
Blueprint
This Blueprint offers an in-depth analysis of inequalities of income and wealth in the EU, as well as their causes and consequences. How evenly are the benefits of growth distributed in our economies, and what does this mean for fairness and social mobility? How could and should policymakers react?
Upcoming Event
In this event, participants will take a closer look at the recovery plans submitted by EU countries.
Upcoming Event
This members-only event welcomes Carolyn Rogers Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Past Event
At this policy dialogue organised by the research project EU3D, panellists will discuss different options and what they may entail while revisiting the debates on the future of Europe at national and EU-level that have been conducted thus far and their patterns, including preliminary findings on national parliamentary debates.
Podcast
The WTO has been 'missing in action': how can we restore the organisation's role as a global forum for cooperation on trade?
Working Paper
This paper sets out a framework for addressing competition concerns arising from acquisitions in big platform ecosystems. This is a June 2021 update of the same paper published in January 2021.
Working Paper
How do incentives to collude depend on how asymmetric firms are? For low levels of differentiation, an increase in quality difference makes collusion less stable. The opposite holds for high levels of differentiation.
Blog Post
The approach of the European Union’s institutions to the Conference on the Future of Europe is muddled, with risks for the outcome.
Upcoming Event
The EU will become into a major issuer of safe assets in the coming years. How will this interact with the debt issuance of European sovereign debts?
Blog Post
Confronted with COVID-19, high-income Gulf countries have done better than most of their middle- and low-income neighbours; Jordan and Morocco are also positive exceptions.
Upcoming Event
At this event the CEO of Assicurazioni Generali, Philippe Donnet will be in conversation with Guntram Wolff, Director of Bruegel.
Opinion
The best way for the EU and the US to jointly introduce carbon border adjustment would be to form a ‘climate club’.
Podcast
When Joe Biden visits Europe for the first time as US president, he should begin forging a transatlantic green deal.
