Jaumotte, Florence, Osorio Buitron, Carolina, (2015), “Inequality and Labor Market Institutions”, IMF Staff Discussion Note, SDN /15/14, July The rise of inequality in advanced economies, and in particular the growing concentration of incomes at the top of the distribution, has become a greater focus of attention for economists and policymakers. Understanding the factors behind this phenomenon is essential to determine whether policy action is needed to reduce income inequality, taking into account other policy objectives. Traditional …Read More

Hansen, R. & Gordon, J. C., (2014), “Deficits, Democracy and Demographics: Europe’s Three Crises”, West European Politics, Vol. 37, Issue 6, pp. 1199-1222. This article argues that the EU and, above all, the eurozone are facing not one crisis – an economic and fiscal one – but three: an economic crisis, a crisis of institutions, and a crisis of demography. These crises are not simultaneous; they are overlapping and self-reinforcing, …Read More

Daniele, G. & Geys, B., (2015), “Public support for European fiscal integration in times of crisis”, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.22, Issue 5, pp. 650-670. The current economic crisis has triggered fierce debates among policy-makers and the media across and within European countries about the need for a closer European fiscal union. Using a novel dataset derived from the Eurobarometer surveys, this article investigates European citizens‘ opinions towards such fiscal …Read More