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Opening of national research programs: different national answers to international pressures?

Primeri, Ε. (2015) “Opening of national research programs: different national answers to international pressures?“, Europe of Knowledge Blog, Ideas on Europe, 16 January.   In a funding and policy context as deeply changed as the European one, the opening of national research programs has become an important instrument for national governments and funding agencies to increase international collaboration and to improve the quality and efficiency of scientific research. The opening …Read More

What Will Populism Do To Europe?

Świeboda, P. (2015) “What Will Populism Do To Europe?“, Social Europe Journal, 15 January.   There has been much wishful thinking in Europe that populism will vanish once growth rates pick up. Those who have believed in this unlikely miracle tended to assume that the populist upsurge is a natural reaction to economic misery brought about by the crisis. In this, they are only partly right. Populism is as much …Read More

From Welfare State To Innovation State

Rodrik, D. (2015) “From Welfare State To Innovation State, Social Europe Journal, 15 January.   A specter is haunting the world economy – the specter of job-killing technology. How this challenge is met will determine the fate of the world’s market economies and democratic polities, in much the same way that Europe’s response to the rise of the socialist movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the …Read More

Tear down the trade-policy silos! Or how the servicification of manufacturing makes divides in trade policymaking irrelevant

Lodefalk, Μ. (2015) “Tear down the trade-policy silos! Or how the servicification of manufacturing makes divides in trade policymaking irrelevant“, VoxEU Organisation, 16 January.   The manufacturing sector in OECD countries increasingly buys, produces, sells and exports services. This is now known as the servicification of manufacturing. This column, using firm-level data from Sweden, shows that as firms’ share of in-house services increases, so does their export intensity. The increasing …Read More

Europe Rediscovers Nationalism

“Europe Rediscovers Nationalism“, STRATFOR Global Intelligence, Analysis, 11 January.   Analysis In his latest novel, French writer Michel Houellebecq presents a controversial situation: The year is 2022, and France has become an Islamicized country where universities have to teach the Koran, women have to wear the veil and polygamy is legal. The book, which created a stir in France, went on sale Jan. 7. That day, a group of terrorists …Read More

The Impact of Alternative Public Policies on the Deployment of New Communications Infrastructure – A Survey

Briglauer, W., Frübing, S. & Vogelsang, I. (2015) “The Impact of Alternative Public Policies on the Deployment of New Communications Infrastructure – A Survey, Discussion Paper No. 15-003, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), January.   Abstract Our survey reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on all alternative policies to promote the deployment of new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive externalities, dynamic efficiency …Read More

While Europe debates a placebo the disaster deepens

Mitchell, B. (2015) “While Europe debates a placebo the disaster deepens“, Bill Mitchell Blog: Modern Monetary Theory… Macroeconomic Reality, 12 January.   The youth are our future. The future is for our youth. Poverty used to be a problem of the aged as they left employment and entered retirement. Shorter life spans than now meant it was a relatively short-lived but deplorable state for people to end in. All that …Read More

A common sense guide to EU reform

Corbett, R. (2014) “A common sense guide to EU reform“, Future Europe – Signposts from the European Elections, Europe’s World Journal, 09 October.   It is hard to find a politician in any EU country these days who doesn’t call for ‘reform’. But as to what those reforms should be, opinions differ widely. And while the anti-system parties, wanting either to leave or destroy the Union are the loudest, it …Read More

Lacklustre investment in the Eurozone: The policy response

Buti, M. (2014) “Lacklustre investment in the Eurozone: The policy response“, VoxEU Organisation, 22 December.   Weak investment is a key macroeconomic problem in the Eurozone, and the new European Commission has proposed an ‘Investment Plan’ to complement existing policy initiatives. In this column, the Commission’s Chief Economist explains the key rationale behind the Investment Plan. Weak investment has been the main source of weakness in the Eurozone recovery (European …Read More

The sham of central bank independence

Mitchell, B. (2014) “The sham of central bank independence“, Bill Mitchell Blog: Modern Monetary Theory – Macroeconomic Reality, 23 December.   Let it be noted that the Japanese government 10-year bond yield hit 0.33 per cent overnight. That tells you that all the scaremongering that has been going on over the last twenty years about hyperinflation, the Japanese government running out of money, the bond markets dumping the yen, and …Read More