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Schaeuble Leaves, But His Ideas Are Here to Stay

Bershidsky, Leonid, (2017), “Schaeuble Leaves, But His Ideas Are Here to Stay”, Bloomberg View, 10 Οκτωβρίου Wolfgang Schaeuble was the euro zone’s longest-serving finance minister until the realities of German coalition-building sent him to the parliament speaker’s post last month. His legacy, laid out in a recent interview and a leaked document, should be taken seriously. Even without him, Germany will continue to hold back support for sweeping reforms of …Read More

Global Economic Upswing Creates a Window of Opportunity

Maurice Obstfeld, (2017), “Global Economic Upswing Creates a Window of Opportunity”, IMF Blog, 10 Οκτωβρίου The global recovery is continuing, and at a faster pace. The picture is very different from early last year, when the world economy faced faltering growth and financial market turbulence. We see an accelerating cyclical upswing boosting Europe, China, Japan, and the United States, as well as emerging Asia. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις OECD, (2017), «OECD sees …Read More

Όχι σε κεντρικό προϋπολογισμό και υπουργό Οικονομικών της ευρωζώνης λέει ο Β. Σόιμπλε

Η Καθημερινή, (2017), “Όχι σε κεντρικό προϋπολογισμό και υπουργό Οικονομικών της ευρωζώνης λέει ο Β. Σόιμπλε”, 10 Οκτωβρίου «Όχι» στις προτάσεις του γάλλου προέδρου Εμανουέλ Μακρόν για έναν κεντρικό προϋπολογισμό της Ευρωζώνης και για έναν υπουργό Οικονομικών των χωρών του ευρώ, είπε ο υπουργός Οικονομικών της Γερμανίας Βόλφγκανγκ Σόιμπλε, στην τελευταία, πιθανότατα, συμμετοχή του σε Eurogroup. Αντιθέτως, σε έγγραφο εργασίας που παρουσίασε κατά την σημερινή συνεδρίαση και το οποίο επικαλείται …Read More

Education at a Glance 2017

OECD, (2017), “Education at a Glance 2017”, OECD Indicators, Οκτώβριος Education at a Glance addresses the needs of a range of users, from governments seeking to learn policy lessons to academics requiring data for further analysis to the general public wanting to monitor how its country’s schools are progressing in producing world-class students. The publication examines the quality of learning outcomes, the policy levers and contextual factors that shape these …Read More

Promising ideas for future research on the employment effects of minimum wages

Neumark, David, (2017), “Promising ideas for future research on the employment effects of minimum wages”, VoxEU, 9 Οκτωβρίου Studies of the employment effects of minimum wages have been wide-ranging, but a consensus proves elusive. This column summarises the existing literature and proposes some key questions to better inform policy in the context of minimum wages across different states in the US. Future areas for research should include understanding why different approaches …Read More

The Single Monetary Policy and Its Decentralised Implementation: An assessment

Gros, Daniel, (2017), “The Single Monetary Policy and Its Decentralised Implementation: An assessment”, CEPS Policy Insights No 2017/36, Σεπτέμβριος The statutes of the European Central Bank (ECB) stipulate that it should have recourse to national central banks (NCBs) to carry out monetary policy operations. Such a structure would not be a problem if these operations were all identical across member states and if the resulting profits and losses were shared. But this is …Read More

Catalonia and the Spanish banking system

Myachenkova, Yana, (2017), “Catalonia and the Spanish banking system“, Bruegel, 6 Οκτωβρίου  As tensions rise around Catalonia’s independence movement, there are worries about the impact on the Spanish banking sector. Banks based in Catalonia account for around 14% of total assets. Some major institutions are already moving their headquarters to other parts of Spain. However, most Spanish banks have significant exposure to the Catalan market, and all could be caught …Read More

Οι κεντρικοί τραπεζίτες σπαταλούν την ισχύ τους

Swaha Pattanaik, (2017),  “Οι κεντρικοί τραπεζίτες σπαταλούν την ισχύ τους”, Καθημερινή/Reuters, 5 Οκτωβρίου Κάποιες φορές στην προσπάθεια να αντιμετωπιστεί η παγκόσμια χρηματοπιστωτική κρίση και να αποτραπεί η διάσπαση της Ευρωζώνης, αρκετοί κεντρικοί τραπεζίτες αρχίζουν να δίνουν την εντύπωση ότι είναι σούπερ ήρωες. Ωστόσο, υπάρχει ο κίνδυνος να μετατραπούν σε θύματα της δικής τους επιτυχίας. Κατά το παρελθόν, η βασική δουλειά των κεντρικών τραπεζιτών ήταν ο έλεγχος του πληθωρισμού, ώστε να μην …Read More

EU28 current account surplus €41.9 bn

Eurostat/EU28 current account surplus €41.9 bn/4 Οκτωβρίου, 2017 The EU28 seasonally adjusted current account of the balance of payments recorded a surplus of €41.9 billion (1.1% of GDP) in the second quarter of 2017, down from a surplus of €49.4 billion (1.3% of GDP) in the first quarter of 2017 and from a surplus of €58.6 billion (1.6% of GDP) in the second quarter of 2016, according to estimates released …Read More

Business investment rate up to 23.2% in the euro area

Eurostat/Business investment rate up to 23.2% in the euro area/5 Οκτωβρίου, 2017 In the second quarter of 2017, the business investment rate was 23.2% in the euro area, compared with 22.9% in the previous quarter. The business profit share in the euro area was 40.8% in the second quarter of 2017, compared with 40.5% in the first quarter of 2017. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Veugelers, Reinhilde, (2017), «Remaking Europe: the new manufacturing as …Read More