Investment

Planning for the rising fiscal costs of climate disasters

Low insurance coverage is turning EU governments into disaster insurers of last resort, strengthening the case for prevention and adaptation finance

Heather Grabbe, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Marie-Sophie Lappe, Irene Monasterolo, Massimo Tavoni and Georg Zachmann

How can governments prepare for the rising costs of climate disasters?

Ugnė Keliauskaitė

Between values and interests: drivers of EU aid

EU aid is still more poverty-focused than peers, but external policy drivers are growing and reshaping development cooperation after Global Gateway

Anna Bahí, Roel Dom, Niclas Poitiers and Camille Reverdy

How has the Global Gateway reshaped EU development aid?

Roel Dom and Camille Reverdy

28th regime: tool or branding?

Rebecca Christie

How do trade restrictiveness and trade policy uncertainty affect FDI? An empirical investigation

Rising trade barriers and uncertainty are choking FDI inflows, hitting low and middle-income investors hardest in a fragmented global economy

Hites Ahir, Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Francesco Frangiamore, Jonathan D. Ostry and Francesco Scianna

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

Green bonds are easier to trade than often assumed

A quantitative analysis shows green bond markets are liquid and resilient; certification and project selection are big factors in their attractiveness

Thomas Dulak and Guntram B. Wolff

How to secure the benefits of an EU-wide incorporation regime

An EU Inc. plan for a common company regime should become more targeted and be underpinned by better system infrastructure

Fiona M. Scott Morton and Reinhilde Veugelers

Testimony to the Belgian Senate's Finance and Mobility Committee on a proposal for a Benelux working group on investment and taxation

Rebecca Christie

Understanding the global clean tech manufacturing slowdown

Benjamin Bjerkan-Wade, Hannah Hess, Marie Jugé, Ugnė Keliauskaitė, Kate Larsen, Ben McWilliams, Hannah Pitt and Simone Tagliapietra

Future-proofing and creative destruction

How EU sustainable finance can find a way forward

Rebecca Christie, Silvia Merler and Dirk Schoenmaker

How to read the European Commission’s Iran crisis energy emergency plan

EU countries should coordinate measures to offset rising energy prices from the Iran conflict, while using the crisis to drive longer-term change

Alexander Roth and Simone Tagliapietra

The European Union’s external imbalances: past, future and policy

Europe’s rising external surplus now rivals China’s, reflecting weak investment and growing surpluses, pointing to a need for pro-investment reforms

Zsolt Darvas, Costanza Greppi Maturana, Alexandre Mendonça, Camille Reverdy, Bo Sangers and Jeromin Zettelmeyer