Blog Post
Online job postings indicate that demand from top tech firms for frontier IT skills is about double their demand for other IT skills. This could indicate increasing concentration of skills in a few firms, with other firms left behind.
Blog Post
Agreement is needed at international level on mechanisms to ensure better preparedness for the next pandemic.
Upcoming Event
The inaugural conference of the the project Future of Work and Inclusive Growth in Europe.
Podcast
Laura Nurski, Sabine Theresia Köszegi and Giuseppe Porcaro explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and job transformation and ask whether the impact differs by gender.
Opinion
Perhaps an analysis of the causes of the declining investment rate would bring us closer to explaining why real interest rates are so low.
Opinion
Under Xi Jinping's new economic agenda 'common prosperity', China is cracking down on indebted real estate developers like Evergrande.
Blog Post
Between 2007 and 2020, the balance sheets of the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Fed have all increased about sevenfold. But inflation stayed low throughout the 2010s. This was possible due to decreasing money velocity and the money multiplier. However, a continuation of asset purchasing programs by central banks involves the risk of higher inflation and fiscal dominance.
Opinion
The pandemic has certainly permanently affected our way of working. Whether this is for the better remains to be seen.
Opinion
Europe should defend its existing dominance in equipment manufacturing for semiconductors and invest in chip design instead of luring high-end fabrication to its shores.
Blog Post
The current convergence in measures to open up digital platforms leaves a door open to some form of international coordination.
External Publication
Should internet era merger policy differ from industrial era merger policy? This paper was published in Industrial and Corporate Change by Oxford University Press.
Past Event
In this Sound of Economics Live episode, we look at the State of the Union address delivered by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.