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The fiscal side of Europe’s energy crisis: the facts, problems and prospects
Europe needs to move beyond emergency fiscal responses and focus on structural changes to allow the EU to accelerate its decoupling from fossil fuels.
Is Europe failing on import diversification?
Despite a goal of economic self-reliance, the European Union’s imports are generally sourced from an increasingly limited set of suppliers.
The difficulty of designating gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act
The European Commission should be more precise and transparent when designating gatekeepers under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
Europe’s half a million barrels per day diesel supply question
A new European Union embargo on Russian oil products should not affect EU diesel supplies and prices, but could encourage re-routing by Russia.
Web3: the next internet revolution
Tokenisation based on blockchain technology could bring radical changes to markets for goods and services.
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12 March 2012
The Weekender
Dear All,
It has been an eventful week globally. The Fed pre-announcing a more modest form of possible easing through purchases at the long end of t
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09 March 2012
Microfoundations in Macroeconomics
What’s at stake:The role of aggregate or ad-hoc models for policy discussions in an age where journal papers in macro theory are always microfounded
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08 March 2012
Spain and the fiscal compact
The announcement by Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, not to stick to the fiscal target agreed by the previous government is likely to be a g
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07 March 2012
Collateral is key for target debate
In my letter of June 8 2011 to the FT, I had argued that the lack of collateral will limit flows of the eurosystem to the periphery and thereby limi
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06 March 2012
Target 2 of the ECB vs. Interdistrict Settlement Account of the Federal Reserve
The Target 2 discussion is still going strong in Europe especially after the president of the German Bundesbank has expressed his concern as regards t
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05 March 2012
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05 March 2012
Corporate balance sheet adjustment: new stylized facts and its relevance for the euro area
We analyse corporate balance sheet adjustment episodes in Germany and Japan as well as a sample of 30 countries using national account data. Corporate
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02 March 2012
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02 March 2012
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02 March 2012
Microdata for macroeconomics
What’s at stake: Over the last few years, there has been a significant increase in the use of microdata to address macroeconomic questions. Microecono
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29 February 2012
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29 February 2012
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27 February 2012
The Weekender
Dear All,I’m writing these lines from Paris where the vote on the ESM took place in the parliament and passed with the abstention of most left wing pa
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27 February 2012
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24 February 2012
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24 February 2012
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