Blog post
06 October 2017
Catalonia and the Spanish banking system
As tensions rise around Catalonia's independence movement, there are worries about the impact on the Spanish banking sector. Banks based in Catalonia
Macroeconomic policy and governance
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Blog post
05 October 2017
Long-term growth potential, or dead in the long run?
By linking growth with both employment and the imperative for India to hold its own with China for strategic autonomy, Prime Minister Modi has brought
Event
05 October 2017
Crowd Employment
This event aims to discuss the various nuances and diversity that characterize crowd employment.
Blog post
05 October 2017
What has driven the votes for Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland?
The AfD vote in East Germany was consistently stronger than in the West, even after controlling for income, age, education, religion and the overall r
External publication
04 October 2017
The single monetary policy and its decentralised implementation: An assessment
This paper assesses the decentralised implementation of monetary policy by the Eurosystem in terms of its transparency, efficiency and simplicity. Com
Blog post
03 October 2017
Ukraine’s oligarchs are bad for democracy and economic reform
Ukraine’s late and incomplete economic reform created a class of super-wealthy oligarchs who now stand in the way of further liberalisation. The oliga
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
Event
02 October 2017
Europe and Japan: Monetary policies in the age of uncertainty
The 5th Bruegel - Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University conference will focus on monetary policy.
External publication
02 October 2017
An innovation deficit behind Europe’s overall productivity slowdown?
Reinhilde Veugelers' chapter in "Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies", conference volume of the European Central Bank’s Forum on central bank
Opinion piece
29 September 2017
A Jamaican Germany is good for Europe
After a surprising election result, Europe is closely watching German coalition negotiations. A so-called Jamaica coalition of conservatives, liberals
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
Event
28 September 2017
Unfinished business: The unexplored causes of the financial crisis and the lessons yet to be learned
At this event Tamim Bayoumi will present his upcoming book on the financial crisis, showing how the Euro crisis and U.S. housing crash were, in fact,
Policy brief
28 September 2017
A European perspective on overindebtedness
The sequence of crisis and policy responses after mid-2007 was a gradual recognition of the unsustainability of the euro-area policy framework. The ba
Policy brief
27 September 2017
Ukraine’s unfinished reform agenda
This Policy Contribution analyses the Ukrainian economic, institutional and political reforms of 2014-17 in terms of their sustainability and complete
Opinion piece
27 September 2017
A resilient Euro needs Franco-German compromise
In a piece signed by 15 leading French and German economists, Nicolas Véron lays out a path to a more sustainable Euro. Germany will need to accept so
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