Publications

Promotion of high capacity broadband to rebuild and recover from the pandemic

High-capacity broadband infrastructure will be a key enabler of a forward-looking recovery after COVID-19.

Completing Europe’s banking union: economic requirements and legal conditions

This contribution analyses the deficiencies of the current framework and identifies possible responses, in line with three levels of reform ambition.

Lessons for Europe from China’s quest for semiconductor self-reliance

This paper explores China's quest to become a domestic-demand-driven economy, and the lessons that can be learnt from its quest for self reliance.

Deglobalisation and Protectionism

This paper presents a data-driven examination of whether deglobalisation has happened and whether protectionism was the cause.

How have sanctions impacted Russia?

In this paper we assess both the immediate economic impact and the likely longer-term impact of sanctions on the Russian economy.

An assessment of Europe’s options for addressing the crisis in energy markets

Action to intervene in the gas and electricity wholesale markets is also being taken at European Union level, which is what we analyse in this paper.

Greeniums in sovereign bond markets

In this paper, we analyse whether green sovereign bonds are systematically priced differently to conventional sovereign bonds in the secondary markets

Will Ukraine’s refugees go home?

The way to help Ukraine will be to assist in reconstruction and not place artificial impediments to immigration of those who have already suffered.

Enlarging and deepening: giving substance to the European Political Community

The EPC would not be, and should not be, regarded as a substitute for EU accession, but should be designed to work as an accelerator.

Risks to job quality from digital technologies: are industrial relations in Europe ready for the challenge?

The paper extends the debate about the future of work beyond employment and pay, to a consideration of job quality more broadly.

A grand bargain to steer through the European Union’s energy crisis

The current crisis looks set to leave behind it a radically different system, but what that system will look like remains an open question

A gender perspective on artificial intelligence and jobs: The vicious cycle of digital inequality

How do gender stereotypes and gendered work segregation, and digitalisation and automation, result in a vicious cycle of digital gender inequality?

The impact of artificial intelligence on the nature and quality of jobs

Policymakers should strengthen the role of social partners in the adoption of AI technology to protect workers’ bargaining power.

COVID-19 in the European Union: health impacts and effects on economic activity

What matters when it comes to managing the pandemic is to prevent intensive-care admissions and deaths arising from COVID-19.

Mapping banking centres globally since 1970

Legal options for a green golden rule in the European Union’s fiscal framework