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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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18 October 2013
Cut the EU red tape
Besides the fact that anyone with some common sense would probably agree that excessive regulation hampers business and can be a drag on growth, the r
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18 October 2013
Which role should the ECB give up?
In a briefing paper written for the European Parliament’s Monetary Dialogue with ECB President Draghi, we look at old and new competences of
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18 October 2013
Mind the gap! And the way structural budget balances are calculated*
The so-called structural balance of the general government aims to measure the ‘underlying’ position of the budget by excluding the impact of the econ
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14 October 2013
Europe’s Cyprus Blunder and Its Consequences
The late Mike Mussa, a former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, noted about some episodes of the late-1990s Asian financial tur
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14 October 2013
What does the Big Mac say about Euro Area adjustment?
The Big Mac Index offers some quick insights into the state of currencies around the globe by comparing the price of Big Macs across countries.
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14 October 2013
Capital controls in Cyprus: the end of Target2?
After the decision of last Saturday, an even bigger mistake is under way. Cypriot lawmakers have on March 22 almost unnoticed passed a restriction bil
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14 October 2013
Blogs review: Bold ideas for the eurozone from economic history
What’s at stake: Bruegel has recently come under criticisms for not proposing bold enough ideas to reform the eurozone. In this review, I pr
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14 October 2013
Blogs review: The Reinhart and Rogoff debacle
What’s at stake: The authors of the widely acclaimed book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different, have faced the mo
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14 October 2013
Blogs review: The safe asset shortage
What’s at stake: Safe debts – or what is often called information insensitive assets, as they do not suffer from the types of financial frictions
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14 October 2013
Large banks relative to GDP: is there a risk beyond Cyprus?
Are other EU countries with large bank balance sheet relative to GDP also running a risk similar to Cyprus? The answer is no. The major reason for the
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14 October 2013
How to read the EU budget deal?
The approval of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020 was preceded by the usual agonizing negotiations, but a deal was eventually struck
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11 October 2013
Empirics of energy competitiveness
The loss of competitiveness because of elevated energy costs is concentrated in a limited number of sectors. The cost of subsidising energy-intensive
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09 October 2013
EU vs. regional electricity markets: Don't think too small
A comment on the ‘Schengenisation’ of EU energy policy: going for regional electricity markets instead of an EU-wide market comes at a cost.
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08 October 2013
Blogs review: The expansionary effect of bond vigilantes
What’s at stake: An FT column by Kenneth Rogoff – where the author argued that the UK’s austerity approach was an adequate insurance policy
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07 October 2013
German business on the crisis, growing political rifts and UK exit fears
The crisis is not over! This is the opinion of a large part of top managers from German DAX corporations and ten German banks surveyed by&nb
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07 October 2013
Blogs review: Navigating the open economy trilemma
What’s at stake: The challenge of managing capital flows in and out of emerging countries and the difficulty of transmitting a uniform monetary stance
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