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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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01 February 2016
Blaming the Fed for the Great Recession
What’s at stake: Following an article in the New York Times by David Beckworth and Ramesh Ponnuru, the conversation on the blogosphere was dominated t
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28 January 2016
Innovation and sustainability of European healthcare systems
The EU health sector represents 10% of GDP, 15% of public expenditure and 8% of the workforce, and has high potential for innovation and growth. Impro
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26 January 2016
Bad banks and rude awakenings: Italian banks at a crossroads
Italian banks have recently come under market pressure, as investors seemed to have grown worried about the sector. This triggered a speed-up in the d
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25 January 2016
Oil and stock prices
What’s at stake: The recent positive link between oil and stock prices has been puzzling for most observers. While a decrease in the price of oil was
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21 January 2016
The ECB and the Fed: a comparative narrative
Although the Great Recession was viewed as a US problem, the Eurozone was affected by it from the start. This column compares the monetary policy resp
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21 January 2016
Oil prices and inflation expectations
The price of crude oil has fallen even further in recent weeks, as have financial market measures of inflation expectations in the euro area, the US a
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20 January 2016
Schengen and cross-border traffic: trucks arriving in Germany
With the limits of Schengen being continuously tested, this chart looks at the possible economic implications of controls on cross-border traffic.
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18 January 2016
A financial side to a macroeconomic story: macro imbalances and financial integration in the euro area
In a recent paper, I looked at the evolution of financial cycles in the euro area and at their link with capital flows. Here, I focus on how those fin
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18 January 2016
Lost in assumptions: assessing the economic impact of migrants
What’s at stake: Many research institutes have estimated the economic impact of migrants, in particular regarding fiscal budgets and the labour market
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14 January 2016
The economic value of personal data for online platforms, firms and consumers
Data is often referred to as the ‘oil of the twenty-first century'. This article reviews how personal data generate economic value for the three major
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12 January 2016
Has ECB QE lifted inflation?
Euro-area headline inflation has remained close to zero since the ECB stepped up its quantitative easing programmes in early 2015, but this does not m
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11 January 2016
The oil-price slump: crisis symptom or fuel for growth?
The low oil price will benefit oil importing countries, but is also a symptom of slowing global growth. Georg Zachmann explores the reasons for the oi
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11 January 2016
The use of models by policymakers
What’s at stake: The latest discussions on the blogosphere have been dominated by a back and forth trialogue between Larry Summers, Paul Krugman and B
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22 December 2015
The rise of the sharing economy in Indonesia
The sharing economy allows individuals to access goods and services coordinated by online communities such as Uber and Airbnb. The emergence of sharin
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21 December 2015
When will the EU switch away from coal?
In the US, electricity producers are switching from coal to less polluting natural gas thanks to lower gas prices. However in the EU, the carbon price
Blog post
21 December 2015
Finland and asymmetric shocks
What’s at stake: Finland exemplifies the difficulty of dealing with asymmetric shocks within a Monetary Union as the Finnish economy has struggled to
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