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Recent publications

A quantitative evaluation of the European Commission’s fiscal governance proposal
This paper focuses on the fiscal adjustment that the first regulation would require of countries with debt above the treaty benchmarks.

European Union debt financing: leeway and barriers from a legal perspective
The paper investigates the legal feasibility of the EU borrowing on the capital market to finance European public goods.

A new governance framework to safeguard the European Green Deal
This policy brief sets out policy proposals to enhance governance in order to safeguard EU decarbonisation.

The Digital Markets Act is about enabling rights, not obliging changes in market conditions
Compliance with the DMA will be about ensuring that users are empowered with rights to challenge gatekeepers

Making sense of the European Commission’s fiscal governance reform plan
This Policy Brief offers proposals to enhance institutional self-commitment to implementation, with reputational consequences for non-implementation.
Publication list
Blog post
28 May 2021
Emergency Liquidity Assistance: A new lease of life or kiss of death?
Use of Emergency Liquidity Assistance to prop up euro-area banks needs to be more transparent; available evidence suggests its use has not always been
Blog post
27 May 2021
International tax debate moves from digital focus to global minimum
International corporate tax reform is coming closer if countries can set aside their differences and work for progress rather than the perfect deal.
Policy brief
26 May 2021
How difficult is China's business environment for European and American companies?
This Policy Contribution has a purposefully narrow focus, ie China’s business practices and their effects on western firms.
Policy brief
20 May 2021
The great COVID-19 divergence: managing a sustainable and equitable recovery in the European Union
Policymakers must act to prevent lasting divergence within the EU and to prevent scarring from the fallout from the pandemic.
Blog post
11 May 2021
Pandemic leadership: beware of anecdotes
Leaders with science training have not outperformed other leaders in terms of their countries’ coronavirus responses - nor have women or populists.
Working paper
10 May 2021
Research and innovation policies and productivity growth
Can research and innovation policies power growth? The answer currently can only be a timid yes.
Blog post
06 May 2021
Algorithmic management is the past, not the future of work
Algorithmic management is the twenty-first century’s scientific management. Job quality measures should be included explicitly in health and safety ri
Blog post
04 May 2021
China’s M&A activity rebounds with a clear focus on Europe
Despite the pandemic, China’s interest in overseas M&A started to rebound in late 2020, with European industrial companies still of particular interes
Working paper
04 May 2021
Reducing mobility of SARS-CoV-2 variants to safeguard containment
Stopping a new variant from entering from abroad, would facilitate containment and limit the human, social and economic costs.
Policy brief
03 May 2021
Accounting for climate policies in Europe’s sovereign debt market
Sovereign debt will be vital in stimulating sustainable investment, but information is lacking on how green public spending actually is.
Blog post
29 April 2021
Setting Europe’s economic recovery in motion: a first look at national plans
Plans for spending European Union recovery funds submitted by the four largest EU countries reflect rather different priorities. So far, only Italy is
Blog post
28 April 2021
Confronting the risks: corporate debt in the wake of the pandemic
As European economies emerge from lockdowns, it is becoming clearer that corporate debt has reached critical levels.
Blog post
27 April 2021
Vaccine diplomacy: soft power lessons from China and Russia?
The rocky start to the European Union’s vaccination rollout has allowed Moscow and Beijing to score political points in the Balkans and Central and Ea
Blog post
26 April 2021
Do citizens care about Europe? More than they used to
The level of interest of European citizens in the European Union is increasing, but still lags behind EU economic and policy integration.
Blog post
16 April 2021
Urgent reform of the EU resolution framework is needed
In this blog, the authors argue that two aspects of the European resolution framework are particularly in need of reform – the bail-in regime and the
Blog post
15 April 2021
The impact of COVID-19 on artificial intelligence in banking
COVID-19 has not dampened the appetite of European banks for machine learning and data science, but may in the short term have limited their artificia
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