Microeconomic policies

Geopolitics and fines for breaches of the EU’s Digital Markets Act

It would make no sense for the European Commission to back down from DMA fines in the face of US pressure

Reinforcing EU merger control against the risks of acquisitions by big tech

The burden of proving that a merger is not anti-competitive should be shifted onto gatekeepers

Labour market outlook dashboard

This dashboard offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of key labour market outcomes across EU member states, from 2006 onwards

Satellites and Space Races: The role of Europe in the space economy

Stakeholders, demands, and funding of Europe’s space sector

Diversity and inclusion aren’t just about equity, they’re about efficiency too

Adding more women to the workforce delivers a bigger GDP boost than simply employing more men

Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for digital affairs

The EU vs. Big Tech: Regulating for innovation and sovereignty

How should the EU regulate Big Tech and Artificial Intelligence?

Using data as a production factor: policy ideas for a new EU data strategy

How should the EU go about designing a data-market regime that maximises the efficient use of data as an economic production factor?

Long-term care policies in practice: a European perspective

A comprehensive study of the long-term care (LTC) systems in Germany, France, Slovenia, Italy and Denmark

It’s time for the European Union to rethink personal social networking

This Policy Brief explores the potential implementation of Article 7 interoperability for social networking core platform systems.

Catch-up with the US or prosper below the tech frontier? An EU artificial intelligence strategy

This Policy Brief explores why EU AI investment has fallen behind the US and the types of market failure that may have led to that situation

The tension between exploding AI investment costs and slow productivity growth

This working paper explores the tension between rapidly increasing artificial intelligence investment costs and the slower pace of productivity growth

Working less for longer: unintended effects of longevity adjustment of retirement age