Digital economy, labour markets, skills and health

American poverty traps

What’s at stake: Recent research by the Equality of Opportunity Project, a venture led by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Sa

Supply policies at the zero lower bound

What’s at stake: While the benefits of structural reforms are largely undisputed in the long run, several authors consider that reducing mark-ups and

Realizing the Indian dream

It is probably too early to say with certainty that India will soon take its place as the world's third largest economy, behind China and the United S

The long road towards the European single market

This paper argues that identifying and quantifying the channels through which market integration is expected to engender growth is methodological

Mapping competitiveness with European data

This blueprint picks up some of the main issues of the MAPCOMPETE project and provides an inventory and an assessment of the data related to the measu

Dynamic scoring and budget forecasting

Are Italy’s stars of reform aligning?

Two interesting institutional documents were released over the past 10 days: the Going for Growth 2015 of the OECD and the Winter Economic Forecast of

Bruegel’s commitment to transparency: the think tank as fish tank, not gas tank

Understanding who funds think tanks, and to what end, is an important part of maintaining the reputation our sector has for independence. It is also

Financial inclusion, rather than size, is the key to tackling income inequality

In this paper we assess empirically whether financial inclusion contributes to reducing income inequalitywhen controlling for other key factors, such

Two cheers for the new normal

The conventional wisdom about the state of the world economy goes something like this: Since the start of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the develope