Growth

The billionaire paradox

The EU should ask what it wants from globally influential tech magnates, not just how to curb them

Rebecca Christie

Billionaires? In this economy?

How has great wealth transformed society and economic policy in the US and Europe?

Rebecca Christie, David de Jong and Karel Lannoo

India needs lasting reforms to attract foreign capital, not stopgaps

Rajeswari Sengupta and Alicia García-Herrero

Beyond tariffs: why Europe and India must prioritise investment into manufacturing

Alicia García-Herrero, Rajeswari Sengupta and Nina Vujanović

Europe’s economic outlook: managing short-term shocks is no longer enough

Ricky Li and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

28th regime: tool or branding?

Rebecca Christie

Where is the growth?

What do the EU’s spring forecasts say about higher prices, a changing job market and rising uncertainty?

Rebecca Christie, Andreas Billmeier and Mahmood Pradhan

Size versus allocation in capital market development: evidence from pension funds and insurance companies

EU capital markets stay small as savings sit in deposits, making insurers and pension funds pivotal if portfolios shift into productive assets

Marie-Sophie Lappe and David Pinkus

How could Hungary streamline public spending without undermining growth?

Zsolt Darvas

Hungary has room to streamline public spending without hurting growth

Cutting some state operating and economic spending to the average of its regional peers could save Hungary more than four percent of GDP

Zsolt Darvas

What future for the Hungarian economy?

Zsolt Darvas

Hungary’s new beginning – under tight fiscal constraints

The long-awaited change of government gives Hungary an opportunity to tackle tough economic and social challenges while re-aligning with Europe

Zsolt Darvas

Debt sustainability in Japan and the case for a fiscal council

Rising rates are testing Japan’s fiscal framework, with debt dynamics hinging on growth and pointing to the need for adjustment and a fiscal council

Tomomi Miyazaki, Marie-Sophie Lappe and Roel Dom

What will it take to make Japan’s debt sustainable?

Marie-Sophie Lappe

Italy and Europe

Slow growth, high debt and the paradox of Giorgia Meloni

Rebecca Christie, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and Francesco Papadia