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Blog post
20 February 2020
Inflation targets: revising the European Central Bank’s monetary framework
The ECB is looking to evaluate whether its definition of price stability is effective in helping anchor inflation expectations. We argue that the curr
Blog post
19 February 2020
What is fuelling the Dutch house price boom?
Housing prices have been rising fast in the West of the Netherlands in the last five years. However, mortgages outstanding have remained flat, raising
Blog post
18 February 2020
The EU’s poverty reduction efforts should not aim at the wrong target
The EU cannot meet its ‘poverty’ targets, because the main indicator used to measure poverty actually measures income inequality. The use of the wrong
Policy brief
17 February 2020
FDI another day: Russian reliance on European investment
Most foreign direct investment into Russia originates in the European Union: European investors own between 55 percent and 75 percent of Russian FDI s
Blog post
17 February 2020
Recent euro-area house price increases are dissimilar to earlier housing booms
Current housing markets relative to those pre-crisis seem to be far less driven by mortgage credit, and the size of the construction sector has not in
Blog post
11 February 2020
The dynamics of data accumulation
The bigger you are, the more data you can harvest. But does data accumulation necessarily breed monopolies in AI and related machine learning markets?
Policy brief
06 February 2020
From climate change to cyber attacks: Incipient financial-stability risks for the euro area
The European Central Bank’s November 2019 Financial Stability Review highlighted the risks to growth in an environment of global uncertainty. On the w
Blog post
04 February 2020
Climate risks to European banks: a new era of stress tests
Several European central banks have begun assessing the impact of adverse climate scenarios on banks’ capital.
Working paper
04 February 2020
Resisting deglobalisation: the case of Europe
Trade and finance expanded in Europe after the financial crisis, while public support for globalisation is on the rise, supported by low unemployment.
Report
03 February 2020
Megatrends: Key Forces Forging Our Future
A vision for Europe to prosper and best serve its citizens
Blog post
31 January 2020
Our two cents on Belgium’s two cents
While the penny is still well and alive in the US, some countries are deciding to do away with their smallest monetary units for this very reason. Bel
Book
28 January 2020
A post-Brexit agreement for research and innovation
This report sets out what the Wellcome Trust and Bruegel have learned from a project to simulate a negotiation process between the UK and EU to create
Blog post
27 January 2020
Libra as a currency board: are the risks too great?
The Libra Association claims it will be analogous to a currency board regime, but they have overlooked the problems of monetary management that come w
Blog post
24 January 2020
A European anti-money laundering supervisor: From vision to legislation
In fighting anti-money laundering, the European Commission should act fast toward creating a central supervisory authority.
Blog post
23 January 2020
Do AI markets create competition policy concerns?
AI markets are young and their structure is yet to crystallise. Is European competition law ready for what happens next?
Blog post
23 January 2020
How could net balances change in the next EU budget?
The gap between payments into the EU budget and EU spending in a particular country has importance when EU spending does not constitute European publi