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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 April 2016
The structural budget balance limbo
A key indicator in the EU’s fiscal framework is the structural budget balance, but estimates of the indicator by the European Commission, IMF and OECD
Blog post
04 April 2016
Trade deficits and jobs at the ZLB
What’s at stake: In the populist narrative against globalization, trade deficits are seen as costing jobs. While this mercantilist view of the world i
Blog post
31 March 2016
Is the oil price-GDP link broken?
Oil prices fell to a 12-year low at the beginning of 2016. We find that the drop in the past two years was primarily driven by expectations. In fact,
Blog post
29 March 2016
The procyclicality of TFP growth
What’s at stake: The argument that total factor productivity (TFP) is procyclical has been getting a lot of airtime over the past few weeks as it was
Blog post
22 March 2016
Europe at a crossroads: how to achieve efficient economic governance in the euro area?
Speech of François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of Banque de France at Bruegel, Brussels, 22 March 2016.
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21 March 2016
The trade-backlash explanation of Trump & Sanders
What’s at stake: The success of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders has had bloggers wondered whether the backlash against globali
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16 March 2016
EU Association Agreement could help Ukraine to reform
Ukraine’s closer ties with the EU have been controversial. The Association Agreement is now facing a referendum in the Netherlands. But what exactly i
Blog post
14 March 2016
German Facebook probe links data protection and competition policy
On March 2, 2016, the German Federal Cartel Office opened an antitrust investigation into Facebook’s contract clauses on data use, in what appears to
Blog post
14 March 2016
Helicopter drops reloaded
What’s at stake: Central banks have recently been scaling up their unconventional monetary policy measures. Discussions about helicopter money seem to
Blog post
11 March 2016
ECB TLTRO 2.0 - Lending at negative rates
On Thursday, the ECB surprised observers by announcing a new series of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO II) to be started in Ju
Blog post
10 March 2016
Brexit endangers London’s status as a financial hub
The UK’s competitive edge in financial services is substantial and would be difficult to dislodge. But Brexit could damage London’s attractiveness as
Blog post
09 March 2016
Brexit and the EU-UK deal: consequences for the EU
The debate on Brexit focuses on the economic and political consequences for the United Kingdom, but ignores the impact of the new EU-UK agreement on t
Blog post
08 March 2016
Market turbulence highlights bumpy transition to Europe’s new bank policy regime
Concerns about Europe’s banks contributed to turmoil in global financial markets in February, but Europe’s new banking sector policy regime should gra
Blog post
07 March 2016
"Social dumping" and posted workers: a new clash within the EU
European companies often post employees to another EU country to work there temporarily. These ‘posted workers’ must be paid at least the minimum wag
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07 March 2016
The elimination of high denomination notes
What’s at stake: As high-denomination notes (HDNs) make it easier to transact crime, finance terrorism, and evade taxes, a number of commentators have
Blog post
04 March 2016
China continues to focus on growth not reform
The central government will hold the National People’s Congress (NPC) meeting on March 5th. All the signs point to more monetary and fiscal stimulus,
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