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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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26 November 2015
COP21: Climate action needs a new global architecture
A strong political momentum on climate action has arisen worldwide on the way to Paris. However private and public investors will only conduct the nec
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24 November 2015
Italian “creative” resolution, episode 2
As four tiny Italian banks are being restructured, Italy is again looking for a “creative” approach to bank resolution, which however looks a little b
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24 November 2015
The impact of the oil-price shock on net oil exporters
In the second half of 2014 and early 2015, international oil prices approximately halved. What have been the consequences of this sharp decline on net
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23 November 2015
The economic debates behind COP21
What’s at stake: France will chair and host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) at
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19 November 2015
Counting on the EU - public opinion on welfare state reforms
Many European citizens accept that the EU shapes domestic welfare states. Nearly half of respondents considered its most important role to be setting
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18 November 2015
Capital flows, financial cycles, and macro-prudential policy in the euro area
The financial crisis has prompted a renewed interest in macro-prudential policy as a framework to address the stability of the financial system as a w
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18 November 2015
Naughty students or the wrong school: why is the European Semester proving ineffective?
The fundamental problem of economic policy coordination in the EU is that national policymakers are accountable to their national parliaments and focu
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16 November 2015
The persistence of slow growth
What’s at stake: The persistence of slow economic growth in the Great Recession has been puzzling. Two recent papers have tried to present a coherent
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10 November 2015
Charting public opinion on the future of the welfare state
As part of the of the Vision Europe Summit, a survey was held between July and August 2015 to gauge public opinion on the welfare state after the cris
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09 November 2015
The uncertain decline of the natural rate of interest
What’s at stake: Controversies over whether and by how much the natural rate of interest – the rate compatible with full employment and stable prices
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06 November 2015
Brazil: playing with fire
Rattled by political turmoil and in the midst of severe stagflation, Brazil is really ‘playing with fire’. Urgent measures are needed to reduce the fi
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02 November 2015
Greek bank recap
The ECB published the comprehensive assessment of the four major Greek banks (Alpha Bank, Eurobank, National Bank of Greece and Piraeus Bank) yesterd
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02 November 2015
QE and investment
What’s at stake: Quantitative Easing has been criticized for generating inflation risks, financial stability risks, and distributional risks. The newe
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26 October 2015
China’s quest for SDR: much ado about nothing
The possibility of the RMB joining the group of key reserve currencies in the world, as defined by the currency composition of the IMF’s own internati
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26 October 2015
The global debt overhang
What’s at stake: Seven years after the financial crisis, recovery is still weak in most parts of the global economy. The general debt overhang across
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21 October 2015
Renzi's risky budget strategy
Last week the Renzi government approved the 2016 budget law proposal. Although the detailed text is not available yet, the broad picture is clear.
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