Event
15 January 2019
Empirical trends in markups and market power: implications for productivity and growth
Empirical trends in markups and market power: their implications for productivity and growth
Capital markets
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Blog post
20 November 2018
Euro-area sovereign bond holdings: An update on the impact of quantitative easing
Since the European Central Bank’s announcement of its quantitative easing (QE) programme in January 2015, national central banks have been buying gove
Blog post
19 November 2018
Could Italian private wealth compensate for flight of foreign bond-holders?
Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini is "convinced" that Italians can help out their government, in the face of a widening yield spread betwee
Blog post
14 November 2018
Is this time different? Reflections on recent emerging-market turbulence
Since the beginning of 2018, currencies of two large emerging-market economies – Argentina and Turkey – suffered from substantial depreciation. Other
Opinion piece
11 October 2018
Global markets’ tepid reaction to China’s new opening
China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was greeted with great fanfare. But near silence has greeted the recent removal by the China
Blog post
10 September 2018
The higher yield on Italian government securities could soon be a burden for the real economy
The increase in the spread between Italian (BTP) and German (Bund) government securities is directly an additional burden for Italy public finance, an
Podcast
04 September 2018
Backstage: Next steps towards banking and capital markets union in Europe
Bruegel senior fellow Nicolas Véron talks with Jörg Kukies, state secretary at the German finance ministry, about the next steps to the banking union
Blog post
31 August 2018
Italy’s capital flight: 2011, 2016, and early 2018
International investors have been repositioning vis-à-vis Italy, after the new government took office in early May. We compare this summer turmoil to
Blog post
27 August 2018
The Turkish Crisis
Financial markets have been very nervous about Turkey for the past few weeks. We review economists’ opinions about the economic, political and geopoli
Blog post
17 May 2018
Completing Europe’s banking union means breaking the bank-sovereign vicious circle
Several euro area leaders, including the German chancellor, her finance minister, and the French president, have recently referred to the need to “com
Podcast
08 May 2018
Director’s Cut: EU policy priorities towards Capital Markets Union
In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ podcast, Bruegel director Guntram Wolff hosts a conversation with the European Commission’s Vice-Pr
Blog post
04 May 2018
Europe needs a broader discussion of its future
When thinking about what will determine the prosperity and well-being of citizens living in the euro area, five issues are central. This column, part
Policy brief
27 April 2018
Making a reality of Europe’s Capital Markets Union
It is high time to make the CMU project real.The authors of this publication suggest that capital markets will only transform with concrete action and
Event
28 March 2018
Pension funds in the EU capital markets union
At this event, we assessed the prospects for funded pension schemes as a component of balanced retirement savings, and how the regulatory framework co
Opinion piece
08 March 2018
China's “matryoshka” approach for debt-to-equity swaps could be good for banks, but bad for investors
The Chinese banking sector has enhanced its clean-up mechanism by introducing debt-to-equity swaps for the resolution of problem loans. While this all
Opinion piece
20 February 2018
Portugal in a new context of capital flows
The euro area is now the world’s largest exporter of capital. Here we look at the post-crisis transition of one euro-area country – Portugal – from ne