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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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21 December 2018
Ethics and artificial intelligence
Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly being adopted across the economy and society. Early excitement about the benefit
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17 December 2018
Brexit: Now for something completely different?
The life of Brexit. After a week of ECJ rulings, delayed votes, Theresa May’s errands across Europe and the vote of no confidence, we review the lates
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13 December 2018
Does the Eurogroup's reform of the ESM toolkit represent real progress?
The deal reached on euro-zone reform at the December 4th Eurogroup is not ground-breaking. However, it contains a number of incremental but potentiall
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11 December 2018
Economic policy challenges in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
For a long time, southern and eastern Mediterranean countries struggled with serious socio-economic challenges and dysfunctional economic systems and
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10 December 2018
Les gilets jaunes
For weeks, protesters wearing yellow motorist vests have taken to the streets of Paris to protest against the rising price of fuel. They have since ta
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07 December 2018
Providing funding in resolution: Unfinished business even after Eurogroup agreement on EMU reform
The recent Eurogroup agreement on euro-area reform foresees a greater role for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) as a backstop to the banking uni
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06 December 2018
ECB’s huge forecasting errors undermine credibility of current forecasts
In the past five years ECB forecasts have proven to be systematically incorrect: core inflation remained broadly stable at 1% despite the stubbornly p
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03 December 2018
The international role of the euro
The authors assess whether the euro area should pursue a greater international role for the euro, as outlined by European Commission president Jean-Cl
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03 December 2018
Green central banking
A few weeks ago, Silvia Merler discussed the rise of “ethical investing”. A related question emerging from the discussion is whether central banks sho
Blog post
29 November 2018
Machine learning and economics
Machine learning (ML), together with artificial intelligence (AI), is a hot topic. Economists have been looking into machine learning applications not
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29 November 2018
Youth unemployment: Common problem, different solutions?
Youth unemployment is a major obstacle to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s human and economic development. In this blog post, Uri Dadu
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27 November 2018
Preliminary observations on the European Commission’s Android decision
Following the announcement that Alphabet (Google) will appeal the European Commission's ruling on the competition case against its Android mobile oper
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20 November 2018
Euro-area sovereign bond holdings: An update on the impact of quantitative easing
Since the European Central Bank’s announcement of its quantitative easing (QE) programme in January 2015, national central banks have been buying gove
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19 November 2018
Could Italian private wealth compensate for flight of foreign bond-holders?
Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini is "convinced" that Italians can help out their government, in the face of a widening yield spread betwee
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19 November 2018
The Brexit withdrawal agreement
On November 14th the UK government cabinet approved the draft text of the withdrawal agreement, the deal reached between EU and UK negotiators. The de
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15 November 2018
What the 2018 EBA stress tests (don’t) tell you about Italy
The results of the latest European Banking Authority stress tests were eagerly awaited for their results on the four biggest Italian banks. At first s
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