Transatlantic relations

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Initiative: Hope or Hype?

The decision to launch negotiations on a bilateral free trade area between the EU and the US, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnershi

André Sapir

Bank versus non-bank credit in the United States, Europe and China

In the wake of recent crisis developments in the US and Europe, non-bank credit channels have often been portrayed as 'shadow banking' and have been c

Nicolas Véron

Deleveraging and global growth

Paper based on the Asia Europe Economic Forum conference of 21-22 January 2013.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Yung Chul Park, Fan He, Masahiro Kawai and Sébastien Jean

Thunderbolts in the patent storm – EU and US antitrust strikes in the Samsung and Google-Motorola cases

Standards and standard-setting processes play a key role in fostering European economic development. Standards ensure interoperability of networks and

Mario Mariniello

Lessons from the launch of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The US government established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2011 as an independent agency accountable to Congress. Despite politi

Financial regulatory reforms in the UK and US to manage systemic risks and strengthen consumer protection

Compared to micro-prudence of financial institutions, ‘systemic stability’ and ‘consumer protection’ are harder to achieve because they are beyond the

The recovery in US housing

Jérémie Cohen-Setton

The unemployment puzzle

Jérémie Cohen-Setton

Fiscal federalism in crisis: lessons for Europe from the US

Drawing comparisons between the fiscal architecture and situation in the US and the European Union, Bruegel Research Fellow Zsolt Darvas answers three

Zsolt Darvas