Comment
14 September 2021
El Salvador’s great crypto experiment
Can bitcoin surpass the dollar in popularity and make El Salvador the first state to operate entirely with a private currency?
Digital economy
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Event
02 September 2021
Brave new digital industrial policy
Bruegel Annual Meetings, Day 2 - In this session our speakers will discuss innovation and digitalisation.
Blog post
26 August 2021
The great infodemic: time to consider a fake news tax
A content-based tax on the revenue from digital advertising is needed to prevent the monetisation of fake news by both creators and platforms.
Blog post
20 July 2021
Will European Union recovery spending be enough to fill digital investment gaps?
The recovery facility will boost digital transformation, but questions remain whether it will be sufficient to achieve Europe’s digital ambitions.
Podcast
20 July 2021
Are robots taking our jobs?
What will be the impact of automation on the economy? Bruegel's own Giuseppe Porcaro discusses with Aaron Benanav, Laura Nurski, and Alexis Moraitis.
Event
08 July 2021
Investment firepower for the recovery: a conversation with Philippe Donnet, CEO of Assicurazioni Generali
At this event the CEO of Assicurazioni Generali, Philippe Donnet was in conversation with Guntram Wolff, Director of Bruegel.
Working paper
15 June 2021
Platform mergers and antitrust
This paper sets out a framework for addressing competition concerns arising from acquisitions in big platform ecosystems. This is a June 2021 update
Event
08 June 2021
The Recovery and Resilience Fund: Accelerating the digitalisation of the EU?
How can new EU funds supplement national digital and green funding and EU funds from the standard seven-year EU budget to accelerate digitalisation?
Blog post
06 May 2021
Algorithmic management is the past, not the future of work
Algorithmic management is the twenty-first century’s scientific management. Job quality measures should be included explicitly in health and safety ri
Podcast
30 April 2021
Money, money, money!
The nature of money is under scrutiny as central banks begin pondering issuing digital currencies
Comment
27 April 2021
Central bank currencies going digital
Electronic cash might be the future, but it is still unclear what payment innovation it offers for the public, certainly in the euro area. And it is u
Podcast
14 April 2021
A digital yuan?
China is moving towards a digital currency but there is a long way to go.
Comment
16 March 2021
The four pillars of a digital strategy
The European Commission’s digital compass attempts to build strong fundamentals. It is a start. An ambitious digital agenda however requires a strate
Event
15 March 2021
Declining competition: a transatlantic challenge
Join us for a discussion of transatlantic competition with Kristalina Georgieva, Margrethe Vestager and Amy Klobuchar among others.
Working paper
02 March 2021
Talking about Europe: exploring 70 years of news archives
This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of Europe as reflected in European media.
Event
24 February 2021
Protecting workers in the platform economy
How can we protect platform workers while preserving the opportunities and benefits that are generated by the sharing economy?