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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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13 September 2018
The economic case for an expenditure rule in Europe
Proposals for reforming the euro area back on the agenda. An overhaul of the European fiscal rules should be on high on this agenda, because the curre
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10 September 2018
The higher yield on Italian government securities could soon be a burden for the real economy
The increase in the spread between Italian (BTP) and German (Bund) government securities is directly an additional burden for Italy public finance, an
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10 September 2018
Lehman Brothers: 10 Years After
Ten years after the bankruptcy that shook the world, we review economists’ take on the lessons learned from the global financial crisis.
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04 September 2018
Monetary policy and superstar firms
The yearly Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers has focused this year on the topic of changing market structure, the rise of superstar firms, and
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03 September 2018
Fighting fear with factfulness – and engagement
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, delivered the keynote speech at Bruegel's Annual Dinner 2018, held on 3 September 2018.
Blog post
31 August 2018
Italy’s capital flight: 2011, 2016, and early 2018
International investors have been repositioning vis-à-vis Italy, after the new government took office in early May. We compare this summer turmoil to
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29 August 2018
Criteria for entry into the ERMII and the banking union: the precedent from Bulgaria
In its bid to join the single currency Bulgaria has made commitments on financial supervision but also wider structural reform which set a precedent f
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27 August 2018
The Turkish Crisis
Financial markets have been very nervous about Turkey for the past few weeks. We review economists’ opinions about the economic, political and geopoli
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21 August 2018
The great fiscal lever: An Italian economic obsession
In the Italian macroeconomic context, many are convinced that if only we had a large enough fiscal lever, we could set in motion an economy that has s
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14 August 2018
What should the EU do about the Turkish currency crisis?
The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks; in this blog post, the authors discuss the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in T
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23 July 2018
Italy's "Dignity Decree"
The new Italian government pushed through its first legislative act including elements of labour market reform. Presented as an overturn of the previo
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18 July 2018
Germany’s savings banks: uniquely intertwined with local politics
German savings banks, known as Sparkassen, form an important feature of the country's banking assets. Unlike in other European countries, German Spark
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