Blog post
31 August 2015
Why is China finding it hard to fight the markets?
Sitting on a pile of debt, China’s only way out is to deleverage: more pain now for sustainable growth later.
Blog post
31 August 2015
Sitting on a pile of debt, China’s only way out is to deleverage: more pain now for sustainable growth later.
Blog post
31 August 2015
What’s at stake: This week’s data renewed concerns about developments in global trade as it showed for the last 6 months the biggest contraction in gl
Blog post
26 August 2015
European stock prices, financial contagion and the trade exposure to China. How the turmoil in China’s stock market is affecting European stock market
Opinion piece
26 August 2015
When productivity growth slows down, there are two choices: to invest in the future or to live within one’s means. Instead, policymakers preoccupied w
Opinion piece
03 August 2015
European leaders seem to have been caught somewhat off-guard by the Iran deal. The Greek saga alone could explain this. The problem is that other comp
Blog post
14 July 2015
What has contributed to Germany's exceptional export performance compared to other European countries?
Blog post
09 July 2015
Spurred by interventions from Chinese authorities, the Chinese stock market was rallying. However, the recent sell-off has wiped out on
Event
29 June 2015
Chinese acquisitions and other direct investments in Europe are growing rapidly, reaching a new record high of 18bn USD in 2014.
Blog post
28 June 2015
China’s outbound foreign direct investment (ODI) may have exceeded inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) for the first time in 2014, according to th
Opinion piece
02 June 2015
Perhaps the most ostensible of all challenges faced by the global economy is that of pervasive debt levels. For quite some time now, particularly foll
Blog post
18 May 2015
China will be the largest contributor to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which aims to become the first global institution headquartered in
Blog post
05 May 2015
As many other central banks in the Asian region, the People Bank of China (PBoC) has been on an easing mode for a few months now and more seems to be
Policy brief
28 April 2015
In the midst of the heated monetary policy debate, the People’s Bank of China (PBC) since mid-2014 has no doubt started loosening its monetary policy,
Opinion piece
07 April 2015
In late 2001, I first used the phrase BRIC to discuss the likely rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China as growing shares of the world economy and ou
Opinion piece
16 March 2015
Blog post
19 February 2015
The Chinese renminbi (RMB) depreciated 2.5 percent against the US dollar in 2014. This was the first depreciation since 2005, when Beijing timidly sta