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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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22 April 2013
What is the net of good and bad news from Brussels and Washington?
The short answer is: somewhat positive. The longer, but still broad-brush, answer starts from noting that two important documents have been issue
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20 April 2013
Blogs review: The trillion-dollar platinum coin option to the debt ceiling
What’s at stake: What started as an arcane idea on a finance blog a couple of months ago – that the debt ceiling crisis could be averted by explo
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20 April 2013
Is the Euro Crisis Over?
Financial crises tend to start abruptly and end by surprise. Three years ago, the euro crisis began when Greece became a cause for concern among polic
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20 April 2013
Inequality and adjustment in Europe
Inequality differs across Europe. Some countries in major economic adjustment have been hit hard by an increase in inequality together with an increas
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20 April 2013
Decarbonisation is no 100 metre race
In November 2012, the European Climate Commissioner made a proposal to stabilise the European Union’s emission trading system – a market for greenhous
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16 April 2013
China needs to set its services free
China enjoyed a growth rate of more than 10 per cent from 2000 to 2010. But its economy is now in trouble.
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15 April 2013
Europe’s banks need to be recapitalised – now
Europe’s growth performance was disappointing before the financial crisis. It has been dismal since. Five years into the “great recession”, the r
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11 April 2013
European Emission trading - A blueprint for a countercyclical policy without teeth
Carbon emissions have been falling, but perhaps not for the most sustainable reasons. The graphs below show volumes of carbon emissions produced by th
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09 April 2013
Italy’s elections had little impact on TARGET2 balances
We documented early signs of improved market sentiment towards struggling euro members in this post at the end of January. Since then, however, Europe
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02 April 2013
Preventing bank runs – a primer
Worries about Cyprus at first decreased with the second agreement between the Cypriot government and euro area partners. Controversially, howeve
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02 April 2013
Time for us to bank on a new Marshall Plan
Almost like a bolt from the blue, the Eurogroup meeting of euro-area finance ministers, along with the troika of the European Commission, the Europe
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02 April 2013
With Cyprus, Europe risks being too tough on banking moral hazard
Europe has long been far too tolerant of moral hazard in its banking system. But with the Cyprus plan, the pendulum may now be swinging too far in the
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02 April 2013
Blogs review: The when and how of exit strategies
What’s at stake: Markets trembled when minutes from the December FOMC meeting revealed that members had discussed the side effects of maintaining a $8
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31 March 2013
The Politics of Moral Hazard
It is an old and a never-ending contest. On one side are the moral-hazard scolds, claiming that one of the major responsibilities confronting policyma
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27 March 2013
Where has all the (base) money gone?
The short answer is: into the liquidity trap.
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27 March 2013
It is not yet too late to drop the idea of capital controls in Cyprus
The Cypriot finance minister Michael Sarris yesterday announced that Cyprus would introduce capital controls (see an FT report here). He announced tha
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