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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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29 October 2014
Uber Economics: There is no such thing as bad publicity
The following graph shows the individual index of Google searches for "Uber" and the index of searches for "Taxi", both in Ge
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29 October 2014
The distributional effect of quantitative easing
What’s at stake: The notion that ultralow interest rates and central-bank asset purchases have fueled a surge in asset prices, which mostly
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28 October 2014
Monday blues for Italian banks
On Sunday, the ECB and EBA published the results of their comprehensive assessment of banks balance sheets, and Italian banks where the worst performe
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27 October 2014
The ECB’s bank review: Kill the Zombies and heal the wounded
The European Central Bank’s comprehensive assessment of euro area banks has had an encouraging start. But complacency could still lead to another fail
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27 October 2014
Europe’s Banking Union starts on an encouraging note
Sunday, October 26 was D-Day for Europe’s banks: at noon in Frankfurt, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the results of its “compreh
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26 October 2014
Austerity Tales: the Netherlands and Italy
Austerity might be driving the eurozone into a debt-deflation cycle, as higher debt and deflation feed off each other. Earlier this year, the ECB view
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25 October 2014
Updated forecast for euro area trade adjustment
The adjustment of the forecast does not change the general picture of the adjustment process. Yet, there are significant revisions to the relativ
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25 October 2014
Balance of trade adjustment in the euro area
The balance of trade of most crisis countries has improved substantially since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2007. The data shows that incr
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25 October 2014
Fact of the week: Not one European city in the top 10 for tech talent
Two recent LinkedIn analyses show some interesting facts about work-related migration in the 21st century and how this reshapes the world’s economic e
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24 October 2014
Monetary policy cannot solve secular stagnation alone
Larry Summers crystallized an important development and question in a recent speech given at the IMF research conference: has the world economy entere
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24 October 2014
The forever recession
As the recovery takes hold in the US, Europe appears stuck in a never-ending slump. With the ECB systematically undershooting its inflation targe
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24 October 2014
Who’s afraid of the AQR?
Banks have incentives to recapitalize in socially undesirable ways and to hide losses on their balance sheets. Will the comprehensive assessment solve
Blog post
24 October 2014
Chart of the week: Real interest divergence weighs on growth
The real interest rate divergence in the Euro Area has recently generated new attention. Real interest rates fell quite substantially in the cris
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21 October 2014
Jean Tirole's legacy
On October 13 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Risbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2014 to the&
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20 October 2014
The return of market volatility
What’s at stake: The size of the market gyrations this week took everybody by surprise. Several stories have been put forward to rationalize thes
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16 October 2014
China seeking to cash in on Europe’s crises
Last Monday, I posted about the increasing investment of China in Russia, wondering whether and to what extent it could help Russia smooth the economi
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