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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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17 January 2018
Macroprudential policy: The Maginot line of financial stability
The ability of macroprudential policies to assure financial stability and thus leave central banks free to assign the interest rate tool exclusively t
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16 January 2018
Climate change adds to risk for banks, but EU lending proposals will do more harm than good
Climate change is a relevant risk factor for the banking sector, but the European Commission's plan to lower capital requirements for greener investme
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15 January 2018
No Financial Meltdown
Intel suffered only minimal pain in the stock market following revelations about the ‘Meltdown’ hardware vulnerability. But if the market won’t compel
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15 January 2018
Bad News and Good News for the Single Resolution Board
A first report on a key plank of the European Union’s banking union reflects on shortcomings thus far, but also suggests that recent improvements migh
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15 January 2018
A few good (wo)men – on the representation of women in economics
Last week, the American Economics Association Annual Meetings held a session on Gender Issues in Economics and later announced that a new code of prof
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10 January 2018
Does the European Parliament miss an opportunity to reform after Brexit?
While Brexit negotiations are beginning to progress, the European Parliament is preparing to vote on the possible reallocation of seats following the
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08 January 2018
Abenomics, five years in
Five years have passed since Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe was elected in 2012 and started “Abenomics”, a macroeconomic package based upon the “th
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20 December 2017
The growing presence of robots in EU industries
While it is always tempting to try to predict future patterns in the automation of European industries, it is also insightful to assess key dimensions
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19 December 2017
Optimistic UK business confidence indicators predict smooth Brexit
UK business confidence indicators hardly fell after the Brexit vote in 2016 and have been increasing steadily since. The most likely reason is an expe
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18 December 2017
The Republican Tax Plan (2): The debate rumbles on
Reactions to the Republican tax plans continue, concentrating on different aspects of the proposed legislation. We review the latest contributions.
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13 December 2017
Brexit, phase two (and beyond): The future of the EU-UK relationship
Whether it looks more like ‘CETA-plus’ or ‘EEA-minus’, the trade deal that emerges from phase two of the Brexit negotiations should not be the limit o
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13 December 2017
The challenge of fostering financial inclusion of refugees
Creation of a European identification for refugees and a pan-European registry would encourage better financial inclusion, along with clear guidelines
Blog post
12 December 2017
Support for intra-EU mobility of people is on the rise
Europeans’ enthusiasm for immigration from other EU countries is steadily increasing –two-thirds of the EU population, on average, now support it.
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12 December 2017
Latest data shows developing trends in the European Central Bank’s refinancing operations
The stock of liquidity supplied through the ECB’s open market operations has remained relatively stable, though there is a clearer change in the count
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11 December 2017
The DSGE Model Quarrel (Again)
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models have come under fire since the financial crisis. A recent paper by Christiano, Eichenbaum and Trabandt –
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07 December 2017
Sovereign Concentration Charges are the Key to Completing Europe’s Banking Union
The past crisis revealed that most euro-area banks have disproportionate sovereign exposure in their home country. Charging banks for sovereign concen
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