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Blog post
15 October 2018
The international use of the euro: What can we learn from past examples of currency internationalisation?
The recent State of the Union speech by Jean-Claude Juncker sparked a discussion about the potential wider use of the euro on the international stage.
Blog post
15 October 2018
The 2018 Nobel Prize: Growth and the environment
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded jointly to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for integrating respectively climate change and
Blog post
10 October 2018
Are economic and political freedoms interrelated?
Democracy has not always accompanied market economy. But in modern societies, economic and political freedoms are increasingly interconnected. Democra
Blog post
09 October 2018
Improving the efficiency and legitimacy of the EU: A bottom-up approach
The 2019 European elections promise to be a watershed moment for the EU. A recent Bruegel paper made the case for restructuring the Union’s model of g
Blog post
08 October 2018
Italy’s new fiscal plans: the options of the European Commission
The Italian government has announced an increase of its deficit for 2019, breaking the commitment from the previous government to decrease it to 0.8%
Blog post
08 October 2018
Financial panic and the Great Recession
A debate on the roles of financial panic in the Great Recession has been pitting Ben Bernanke against Paul Krugman in what has been characterised as “
Blog post
02 October 2018
One club does not fit all in Europe
In this column, Jean Pisani-Ferry argues how the EU can become a more effective global player, following the Policy Brief "One size does not fit all:
Blog post
01 October 2018
Digesting the Salzburg Summit
As the moment of truth for Brexit negotiations is approaching, with the October European Council around the corner, we review opinions on the outcome
Article
27 September 2018
Transatlantic relations
Testimony before the Belgian Federal Parliament ( La commissions des Relations extérieures de la Chambre des représentants )
Policy brief
26 September 2018
Excess liquidity and bank lending risks in the euro area
In this Policy Contribution prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) as an input to the Monetary Dialo
Blog post
25 September 2018
Something Putin and Juncker appear to agree on – the euro
“It is absurd that Europe pays for 80% of its energy import bill – worth €300 billion a year – in US dollars when only roughly 2% of our energy import
Article
25 September 2018
Brexit and industry & space policy
Testimony before the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
Blog post
24 September 2018
Inequality in China
After amply discussing income inequality in Europe and the US, economists are now looking at the magnitude, implications and possible remedies for thi
Blog post
20 September 2018
Big Macs in big countries: an update on euro area adjustment
Have prices moved in the direction of correcting real exchange rate misalignments everywhere in the euro area in recent years? Not between the largest
Policy brief
19 September 2018
One size does not fit all: European integration by differentiation
The need for reform of the EU is increasingly urgent. The authors of this policy brief suggest a new governance model, combining a bare-bones EU with
Blog post
17 September 2018
Reforming the EU fiscal framework
Researchers have often highlighted the problematic nature of the currently very complex EU fiscal framework. Here we review economists’ views on how i