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A conceptual framework for the identification and governance of European public goods

How to find institutional arrangements for public-good provision, to maximise the benefits of public goods for EU members?

Grégory Claeys and Armin Steinbach

Navigating the treacherous political economy of structural reform

In setting economic policy, politicians should pay attention to the latest economic data and to when they next need to face voters at the polls

Davide Furceri, Jonathan Ostry, Chris Papageorgiou and Dennis P. Quinn

Instruments of economic security

The challenge of improving European economic security has grown in importance, with various relevant policy measures introduced at EU level

Conor McCaffrey and Niclas Poitiers

Strengthening EU digital competitiveness. Stoking the engine

J. Scott Marcus and Maria Alessandra Rossi

Research, innovation and data: a fifth freedom in the EU single market?

Research and innovation should be at the top of the EU economic policy agenda, but cannot over-rely on public investment

Bertin Martens

Lessons from the European Union’s inaugural Hydrogen Bank auction

The EU’s first subsidy auction for renewable hydrogen went about as well as could have been hoped

Ben McWilliams and James Kneebone

Three risks that must be addressed for new European Union fiscal rules to succeed

The reform, completed in April 2024, left implementation unaddressed, or at least open to very different potential outcomes

Lucio Pench

Rippling out: Biden’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and their impact on Europe

The US approach diverges from that of the EU, which is building a case for countervailing duties under WTO rules

Uri Dadush

The Four Ways Through Which Pension Funds Increase the Productivity of Firms They Invest In

Svend E. Hougaard Jensen

Unpacking China’s industrial policy and its implications for Europe

This paper assess how beneficial industrial policy has been for China and how exportable to the European Union its model might be

Alicia García-Herrero and Robin Schindowski

Paris report 2: Europe's economic security

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

How to de-risk: European economic security in a world of interdependence

The question is how exactly the EU should ‘de-risk’ its external economic relationships without foregoing the benefits of trade.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Key factors likely to shape the EU’s trade agenda in the next five-year term

Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir

European Economic Security: Current practices and further development

François Chimits, Conor McCaffrey, Juan Mejino-López, Niclas Poitiers, Vincent Vicard and Pauline Wibaux

Using the financial system to enforce export controls

Russian imports of battlefield goods that are subject to export controls, including from Western producers, have surged since mid-2022

Benjamin Hilgenstock, Elina Ribakova, Guntram B. Wolff and Anna Vlasyuk

Beyond retirement: a closer look at the very old

The European Union should start to prepare for those over 85 making up 10 percent of the population in 2100

David Pinkus and Nina Ruer