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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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18 October 2016
A framework for thinking about bad loans
An important guiding principle in resolving non-performing loans (NPLs) should be to ensure that viable debt remains serviced, while non-viable debt g
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17 October 2016
Brexit, the pound and the UK current account
What’s at stake: UK PM Theresa May announced the intention to trigger article 50 by March 2017, the Pound Sterling crashed, and a dispute among Tesco
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13 October 2016
ECB bank supervision cannot tackle debt restructuring single-handedly
The European Central Bank has begun to tackle a key symptom of banking sector fragility with its proposed guidelines on banks’ management of non-perfo
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13 October 2016
Codetermination in Germany – a role model for the UK and the US?
The idea of codetermination, i.e. the cooperation between management and workers in decision-making, has grown in popularity lately. We review the cha
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12 October 2016
Income inequality through decades and books
Discussions on inequality are gathering momentum in policy and academia. One indication of this trend is the frequency of the word “income inequality”
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10 October 2016
The Deutsche Bank Frenzy and what it says about European banks
What’s at stake: The IMF recently published its Fall Global Financial Stability Report, which points to a decrease in short-term risk but building of
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07 October 2016
Goods and services tax: Landmark tax reforms in India
The complicated tax system in India with multiple rates is one of the most difficult issues investors and industry face. The new uniform tax rate aims
Blog post
03 October 2016
Can North Africa's energy challenges become opportunities?
Cooperation in the energy sector could increase economic prosperity and political stability in North Africa and also generate economic opportunities f
Blog post
03 October 2016
Trumping Trade
What’s at stake: Trade is a central topic in the US presidential campaign, with both candidates expressing some degree of criticism about past trade p
Blog post
30 September 2016
Taxpayer should not facilitate risky bank cocos
Directly after the great financial crisis, the Basel Committee demanded straight equity as regulatory capital, as several debt forms of regulatory cap
Blog post
28 September 2016
Could Europe come up short in the race to the Marrakesh climate conference?
One year after the Paris climate conference, Europe struggles to advance its own ratification process of the agreement. However, a fast-track EU ratif
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28 September 2016
The industrial internet will transform policymaking
The ‘internet of things’ will bring major changes in many areas of life, including the political arena. What will be the new communication tools, stra
Blog post
27 September 2016
The Continental Partnership proposal: a reply to five main criticisms
The proposal for a Continental Partnership (CP) has received a great deal of attention. Two of the authors, André Sapir and Guntram Wolff, clarify som
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26 September 2016
Big in Japan
What’s at stake: This week saw two important Central Banks’ meetings, whose outcomes could hardly be more different. While the U.S. Federal Reserve le
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20 September 2016
What does China’s ‘belt and road initiative’ mean for EU trade?
Much has been written about the Belt and Road initiative since Xi Jinping made it Beijing’s flagship initiative in September 2013. There are many inte
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19 September 2016
The US infrastructure investment debate
What’s at stake: Infrastructure investment has been and will continue to be a prominent campaign theme in the run up to the US elections. Both Hillary
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