Blog post
06 December 2017
How the EU has become an immigration area
Natural change of EU28 population (the balance of live births and deaths) has fallen from high positive values in the 1960s to essentially zero recent
Transatlantic relations
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Blog post
01 December 2017
Why US investors earn more on their foreign assets than Germans
The United States benefits from large yields on its foreign assets relative to foreign liabilities, while in most continental European countries forei
Working paper
29 November 2017
Returns on foreign assets and liabilities: exorbitant privileges and stabilising adjustments
Large stock of foreign assets and liabilities could foster international risk diversification. US, British and Japanese investors earn high yields on
Blog post
27 November 2017
The Republican Tax Plan
As the Trump administration’s tax plan continues its way through the legislature, we review economists’ and commentators’ recent opinions on the matte
Blog post
13 November 2017
Powell's Federal Reserve
With the appointment of Jerome Powell as the next Fed’s chairman, President Trump break a tradition of bipartisan re-nomination and chooses someone wh
Event
09 November 2017
A conversation on USA economic policy with Kevin Hassett
This is an invitation-only event for Bruegel's member and for a selected number of experts.
Blog post
07 November 2017
European worries about isolationist trends
Populist shocks in the UK and US threaten the multilateral order on which the EU depends. What lies behind these earthquakes, and what does it mean fo
Blog post
25 October 2017
Phillips vs. Pass-through, or the changing ECB understanding of inflation
This blog post looks at how the approach of the ECB to inflation has changed over the years. It shows the ECB has moved, over the years, from a small
Blog post
11 October 2017
On the cost of gun ownership
On 1 October 2017, 59 people were killed and another 489 injured in what is currently the deadliest mass shooting in US modern history. The author rev
Blog post
02 October 2017
The Economics of Healthcare
Healthcare reform has been a thorn in the side of the US administration for several months, prompting President Trump to declare that “Nobody knew tha
Blog post
28 September 2017
Employment in Europe and the US: the EU’s remarkable strength
The common narrative that the US labour market outperforms the EU is not as trustworthy as overall unemployment figures imply. There is a complex inte
Blog post
25 September 2017
The Fed’s Unwinding
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held short-term interest rates steady on September 20th and announced that starting from October 2017 the Fed
External publication
22 September 2017
The role of international institutions in fostering sub-Saharan Africa’s electrification
With a new commentary published by the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, Simone Tagliapietra and Morgan Bazilian discuss the role of
Blog post
21 September 2017
Global Imbalances
The recent IMF’s External Sector Report highlighted the persistence of imbalances and a switch of imbalances towards advanced economies. We review rec
Event
20 September 2017
14th Asia Europe Economic Forum (AEEF)
The 14th Asia Europe Economic Forum will be held in Seoul on 20-21 September 2017.
Blog post
18 September 2017
Trump and the Paris Agreement: better out than in
It would be better for international climate governance if Trump stays out of the Paris Agreement, rather than stays in with a new, weakened deal.