Working papers
Long-form papers with original research methodologies that lay academic foundations to address policy issues
Working papers
Long-term care policies in practice: a European perspective
A comprehensive study of the long-term care (LTC) systems in Germany, France, Slovenia, Italy and Denmark
Designing conditionality in the supply of European public goods
This paper studies the consequences of placing conditions on access to sources of central financing
China’s influence at the United Nations: words and deeds
Understanding China’s influence at the UN is essential for comprehending contemporary international relations
The tension between exploding AI investment costs and slow productivity growth
This working paper explores the tension between rapidly increasing artificial intelligence investment costs and the slower pace of productivity growth
The European Central Bank’s operational framework and what it is missing
This paper attempts to fill in the gaps in the European Central Bank's framework review
Working paper
07 June 2018
European and Chinese trade competition in third markets: the case of Latin America
While Europe continues to hold important trade powers, the rise of China in the global economy has significantly reshaped international trade and comp
Working paper
17 May 2018
How big is China’s digital economy?
The rise of influential Chinese digital giants, including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi has shown the world that China is a global leader in digi
Working paper
26 April 2018
State contingent debt as insurance for euro-area sovereigns
Since the financial crisis, EU countries' economies have recovered to the point that they are exiting their adjustment programmes. Institutional stabi
Working paper
18 April 2018
The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour market approach
In theory, robots can directly displace workers from performing specific tasks (displacement effect). But they can also expand labour demand through t
Working paper
24 January 2018
Will macroprudential policy counteract monetary policy’s effects on financial stability?
This paper models monetary policy's transmission to bank risk taking, and its interaction with a regulator s optimization problem.
Working paper
29 November 2017
Returns on foreign assets and liabilities: exorbitant privileges and stabilising adjustments
Large stock of foreign assets and liabilities could foster international risk diversification. US, British and Japanese investors earn high yields on
Working paper
20 April 2017
Regional and global financial safety nets: the recent European experience and its implications for regional cooperation in Asia
Comparing and evaluating financial assistance programmes of four euro-area countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus) and three non-euro-area c
Working paper
11 April 2017
The political economy of Middle East and North Africa oil exporters in times of global decarbonisation
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) oil exporting countries are still not adequately equipped to prosper in a decarbonising world. Decarbonisation sho
Working paper
10 April 2017
From start-up to scale-up: examining public policies for the financing of high-growth ventures
What are the challenges of financing scale-ups, and how can long-term public policies support the creation of a better scale-up environment?
Working paper
30 March 2017
Divorce settlement or leaving the club? A breakdown of the Brexit bill
To bring transparency to the debate on the Brexit bill and to foster a quick agreement, the authors of this Working Paper make a comprehensive attempt
Working paper
06 March 2017
Institutional investors and home bias in Europe’s Capital Markets Union
Zsolt Darvas and Dirk Schoenmaker find strong support for the hypothesis that the larger the assets managed by institutional investors, the smaller th
Working paper
28 February 2017
Fundamental uncertainty and unconventional monetary policy: an info-gap approach
This paper applies the info-gap approach to the unconventional monetary policy of the Eurosystem and so takes into account the fundamental uncertainty
Working paper
17 November 2016
Reform of the European Union financial supervisory and regulatory architecture and its implications for Asia
This Working Paper reviews recent developments in the EU’s financial supervisory and regulatory architecture with a view to draw out lessons for regi
Working paper
08 November 2016
Some are more equal than others: new estimates of global and regional inequality
In this Working Paper, Zsolt Darvas estimates the global and regional distribution of income and calculates statistics of global and regional income i
Working paper
02 November 2016
Providing efficient network access to green power generators: A long-term property rights perspective
This paper analyses the dynamic efficiency of several types of access regulation of a bottleneck transmission line in electricity markets.
Working paper
18 October 2016
Income convergence during the crisis: did EU funds provide a buffer?
This paper shows that economic convergence continued during the crisis for the EU as a whole, although at a slower pace, but for regions in the EU14,
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