Peter Bofinger, (2019), “Industrial policy: is there a paradigm shift in Germany and what does this imply for Europe?”, Social Europe, 27 Μαϊου A paper from the German economy minister on a national industrial policy has gone down like a lead balloon. Peter Bofinger argues it needs to be reflated—and coloured green—at a European level. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Catarina Midoes and Guntram B. Wolff, (2019), «Germany’s even larger than expected fiscal …Read More

Ryan Heath, (2019), “European election’s winners and losers”, Politico, 27 Μαϊου This European election was not a contest with an overarching continental narrative, but a series of national and regional battles. For the two main party groupings in the European Parliament (each losing seats and with less than a quarter of the vote), there will be relief that the results were not worse than they turned out. Here’s POLITICO’s guide …Read More

Mohamed A. El-Erian, (2019), “How Inflation Could Return”, Project Syndicate, 22 Μαϊου After years of low inflation, investors and policymakers have settled into a cyclical mindset that assumes advanced economies are simply suffering from insufficient aggregate demand. But they are ignoring structural factors at their peril. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Barry Eichengreen, (2019), «The Return of Fiscal Policy», Project Syndicate, 13 Μαϊου Daniel Gros, (2019), «Who’s Afraid of Low Inflation?», Project Syndicate, 9 …Read More

Cinzia Alcidi and Daniel Gros, (2019), “Public debt and the risk premium: A dangerous doom loop”, VoxEU, 23 Μαϊου The relationship between high public debt and low interest rates is once again at the forefront of debate.This column shows that countries with high debt levels pay a risk premium. This creates the potential for self-reinforcing loops of high debt and high risk premia, which can become explosive. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Giancarlo …Read More

Η Καθημερινή, (2019), “Χάσμα μεταξύ Βορρά, Νότου αποτυπώνουν οι αποταμιεύσεις”, 23 Μαϊου Λίγες είναι οι χώρες που μπορούν να συγκριθούν με τη Σουηδία. Σχεδόν όλοι οι πολίτες της σκανδιναβικής χώρας επενδύουν τμήμα των αποταμιεύσεών τους σε αμοιβαία κεφάλαια, επιβεβαιώνοντας πως η πρόνοια δεν είναι μόνον προτέρημα του κρατικού μηχανισμού αλλά είναι και χαρακτηριστικό των πολιτών. Η κρίση χρέους στην Ευρωζώνη έδειξε πως τα νοικοκυριά των ευρωπαϊκών χωρών διαφέρουν αρκετά στον …Read More

Zsolt Darvas, Jan Mazza and Catarina Midoes, (2019), “How to improve European Union cohesion policy for the next decade”, Bruegel Policy Contribution No 8, Μάιος The academic literature on the effectiveness of the European Union’s cohesion policy is inconclusive: some studies find positive long-term impacts, others find positive but only short-term impacts, while others find no or even negative impacts. This range of results arises from major complicating factors, related …Read More

Angela Maddaloni and Alessandro Scopelliti, (2019), “Prudential regulation, national differences and banking stability”, ECB Research Bulletin No. 58, 23 Μαϊου What role does prudential regulation play in the prevention of banking crises? Before the financial crisis there were important national differences in the implementation of the EU framework for capital regulation. This article suggests that these differences had important implications for the resilience of banks during the crisis and that, …Read More

Ana Palacio, (2019), “The EU’s Four Challenges”, Project Syndicate, 22 Μαϊου Whatever the next European Parliament’s composition, the imperative will be the same: EU institutions must trade ambition for humility, focusing their attention not on their own power or status, but rather on upgrading and fortifying the project for which they claim to stand. If they fail, the road ahead will only become more perilous. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Gros, Daniel (2019), …Read More