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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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15 December 2014
TLTRO spoils Christmas holidays at the ECB
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but it does not look like Santa Claus has any intention to stop by Frankfurt. Today, the ECB revealed the
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15 December 2014
The economics of P2P lending
Lending Club has captured the attention this week as it became listed on Thursday on the NY Stock Exchange and its share spiked nearly 70% in trading
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11 December 2014
The European Union is the global laggard on Basel III
On Friday, December 5, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its reports on the compliance of rules adopted last year in the European U
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11 December 2014
The superiority of economists
What’s at stake: Marion Fourcade and her co-authors (Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan) have made a big splash this week in econ departments and in t
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10 December 2014
Central and eastern Europe: uncertain prospects of economic convergence
This year countries of Central and Eastern Europe celebrate two important anniversaries: 25 years since the beginning of post-communist transition (19
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09 December 2014
Some tools for lifting the patent data treasure
Bruegel contributes to the stream of research on PATSTAT by providing two algorithms that try to minimize the amount of manual work tha
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08 December 2014
The Achilles' heel of Juncker's investment plan
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's plan to boost investment in the EU has three pillars: (i) the creation of a European Fund for Stra
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05 December 2014
Central bank rates deep in shadow
Measuring the impact of monetary policy on the economy at the zero lower bound is difficult. After 2008, central banks cut policy rates close to zero
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05 December 2014
What is behind the reduction of private sector debt? Comparing Spain and the UK
Spain and the United Kingdom are going through a deleveraging process, with their private debt-to-GDP ratios dropping by around 18% in the United Kin
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05 December 2014
The ECB winter of discontent
It was the last meeting before Christmas at the ECB, as well as the first in the new premises and the last with a non-rotating voting system. It ended
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03 December 2014
The ECB’s balance sheet, if needed
In his press conference on November 6th, ECB President Mario Draghi pledged monetary stimulus, although only “if needed.” These words have won Mr
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01 December 2014
The new oil price war
What’s at stake: Opec’s decision to leave its output ceiling of 30m barrels a day unchanged on Thursday has sent crude prices into a tailspin. Un
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28 November 2014
Juncker’s investment plan: No risk – no return
President Juncker has presented the key features of the European Commission’s plan to boost investment in the EU. In this blog post we review the most
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27 November 2014
Unbundling Google users from Europe
The European Parliament is about to approve a motion calling for the unbundling of Google's services. But the proposal misses the point: will consumer
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26 November 2014
Labour force(d) mobility: Migration in Europe
The free movement of labour is not only a key pillar of the European project, but also essential to the proper functioning of a monetary union. I
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25 November 2014
A crazy idea about Italy
Italy needs growth in nominal GDP to stop its debt burden from rising any further. It also needs to reform its economy, raise its productivity an
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