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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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06 November 2017
The Bank of England’s dovish hike
For the first time since 2007, the Bank of England raised interest rates, with a hike of 25 basis points. At the same time, it provided forward guidan
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02 November 2017
Euro-area enlargement: a new opening?
8 of the EU27 have not yet joined the Euro, and progress in euro-area enlargement seems to have stalled. Commission President Juncker wants to give ne
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31 October 2017
Falling Pound might not bring UK trade balance boost
The Pound Sterling depreciated by 14% against a basket of world currencies in the four months after the referendum vote to leave the EU. A number of p
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30 October 2017
The capital tax cut debate
How much do workers gain from a capital gains tax cut? CEA chairman Hasset claims the tax cut will cause average household labour income to increase b
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25 October 2017
EU borders: walking backwards from Northern Ireland to Cyprus
The Good Friday agreement put to rest age-old conflicts on Ireland. It also offered hope that the reunification of Cyprus might be possible within the
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25 October 2017
Phillips vs. Pass-through, or the changing ECB understanding of inflation
This blog post looks at how the approach of the ECB to inflation has changed over the years. It shows the ECB has moved, over the years, from a small
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23 October 2017
Bailout, bail-in and incentives
Ever since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, more and more rules have been developed to reduce the public cost of banking crises and increa
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19 October 2017
We need a broader, greener EU-Turkey energy partnership
Energy is a vital part of the EU’s increasingly strained relationship with Turkey. It’s also one of the areas where there is still a lot of potential
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18 October 2017
Revision of the Posted Workers Directive misses the point
Instead of the futile proposed revision, the focus should be on the fight against bogus self-employment, social security fraud and undeclared work.
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16 October 2017
An irrational choice: behavioural economist wins Nobel Prize
Richard Thaler was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to the field of behavioural economics. His work documents a set
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11 October 2017
On the cost of gun ownership
On 1 October 2017, 59 people were killed and another 489 injured in what is currently the deadliest mass shooting in US modern history. The author rev
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10 October 2017
An update: sovereign bond holdings in the euro area – the impact of quantitative easing
Since the European Central Bank’s announcement in January 2015 of its quantitative easing programme, national central banks have been buying governmen
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06 October 2017
India’s trade ties with the UK and EU
As EU and Indian leaders meet in Delhi, we look at the figures on trade. The UK’s place in the relationship warrants special attention. EU-India trade
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06 October 2017
Catalonia and the Spanish banking system
As tensions rise around Catalonia's independence movement, there are worries about the impact on the Spanish banking sector. Banks based in Catalonia
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05 October 2017
Long-term growth potential, or dead in the long run?
By linking growth with both employment and the imperative for India to hold its own with China for strategic autonomy, Prime Minister Modi has brought
Blog post
05 October 2017
What has driven the votes for Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland?
The AfD vote in East Germany was consistently stronger than in the West, even after controlling for income, age, education, religion and the overall r
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