External publication
18 October 2016
Currency crises in post-Soviet economies — a never ending story?
This paper offers an updated and comprehensive analysis of the currency crises in Russia and the former Soviet Union economies.
Financial crisis
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Blog post
01 February 2016
Blaming the Fed for the Great Recession
What’s at stake: Following an article in the New York Times by David Beckworth and Ramesh Ponnuru, the conversation on the blogosphere was dominated t
Blog post
16 November 2015
The persistence of slow growth
What’s at stake: The persistence of slow economic growth in the Great Recession has been puzzling. Two recent papers have tried to present a coherent
Policy brief
10 November 2015
The growing intergenerational divide in Europe
During seven years of economic crisis, the intergenerational income and wealth divide has increased in many European Union countries. This paper revie
Opinion piece
30 October 2015
The systemic roots of Russia’s recession
To understand the deep causes behind Russia's recession, we must look at the history of the Russian transition and its partial reversal.
Blog post
26 October 2015
The global debt overhang
What’s at stake: Seven years after the financial crisis, recovery is still weak in most parts of the global economy. The general debt overhang across
Policy brief
16 October 2015
The systemic roots of Russia’s recession
Recession in Russia has become a fact since mid-2014. What are the structural and institutional roots behind it?
Blog post
07 September 2015
Has globalisation 'peaked'? Trade and GDP growth in the post-crisis context
Is the ‘Global Trade Slowdown’ a signal that globalisation has structurally 'peaked', and thus we should expect a stagnation of trade growth also in t
Opinion piece
26 August 2015
The rolling global crisis will come home
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
Policy brief
14 November 2014
The twenty-first century needs a better G20 and a new G7+
In an environment of rapid change in global patterns of trade and wealth creation, a new revamped (but highly representative) grouping should be creat
Policy brief
10 June 2014
Undercutting the future? European research spending in times of fiscal consolidation
Are R&D budgets being smartly used to address growth? How is the crisis affecting public Research & Development budgets across the EU?
Policy brief
20 June 2013
Central bank cooperation during the great recession
During the Great Recession, central banks went well beyond their normal operations and provided liquidity in unlimited amounts, in foreign currency an
Policy brief
15 February 2013
Can Europe recover without credit?
Data from 135 countries covering five decades suggests that creditless recoveries, in which the stock of real credit does not return to the pre-crisis