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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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07 December 2017
Moroccan job market issues, and labour trends in the Middle East and North Africa
Morocco is an interesting case of structural labour market disequilibrium despite respectable growth, and illustrates the issues facing the region’s o
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06 December 2017
Promoting intra-regional trade in the south of the Mediterranean
Regional integration is still a sure way for economies in development to achieve economic growth on the global market. The south of the Mediterranean
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06 December 2017
The eurozone medley: a collection of recent papers on the future of euro-area governance
Our scholars Grégory Claeys, André Sapir, Dirk Schoenmaker, Nicolas Veron and Guntram B. Wolff, explore the next steps needed to create a more functio
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06 December 2017
How the EU has become an immigration area
Natural change of EU28 population (the balance of live births and deaths) has fallen from high positive values in the 1960s to essentially zero recent
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05 December 2017
The European Union with the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean: where do we stand?
Latin American and Caribbean countries have deep historical, political, cultural, and economic ties with Europe, and cooperation between the two regio
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04 December 2017
The Bitcoin Bubble
The price of bitcoin has just passed $11,000. A year ago it was worth less than $800. Economists and commentators are thus increasingly concerned that
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01 December 2017
Why US investors earn more on their foreign assets than Germans
The United States benefits from large yields on its foreign assets relative to foreign liabilities, while in most continental European countries forei
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29 November 2017
German wages, the Phillips curve and migration in the euro area
This post studies why wages in Germany have not borne strong increases despite a relatively strong labour market. I list four reasons why announcing t
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27 November 2017
The Republican Tax Plan
As the Trump administration’s tax plan continues its way through the legislature, we review economists’ and commentators’ recent opinions on the matte
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21 November 2017
The impact of Brexit on the Irish energy system – pragmatism vs. principles
Brexit promises pain for Ireland that could be cut off from the EU internal market and be left exposed to market instability in the UK. Georg Zachmann
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21 November 2017
Has the Phillips curve disappeared?
The Phillips curve prescribes a negative trade-off between inflation and unemployment. Economists have been recently debating on whether the curve has
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15 November 2017
A slightly tighter ECB
The ECB’s recent decision on QE was somewhat on the dovish side. Francesco Papadia gives his view on why it is time to start a discussion about reduci
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13 November 2017
Accounting for true worth: the economics of IFRS9
The introduction in 2018 of forward-looking provisioning for credit losses in EU banks delivers on a key objective in the post-crisis regulatory agend
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13 November 2017
Powell's Federal Reserve
With the appointment of Jerome Powell as the next Fed’s chairman, President Trump break a tradition of bipartisan re-nomination and chooses someone wh
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07 November 2017
European worries about isolationist trends
Populist shocks in the UK and US threaten the multilateral order on which the EU depends. What lies behind these earthquakes, and what does it mean fo
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06 November 2017
The Eurosystem - Too opaque and costly?
The Eurosystem gets a lot of attention from academics and the media, but they largely focus on its statutory objective of maintaining price stability.
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