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Navigating the treacherous political economy of structural reform

In setting economic policy, politicians should pay attention to the latest economic data and to when they next need to face voters at the polls

Davide Furceri, Jonathan Ostry, Chris Papageorgiou and Dennis P. Quinn

Instruments of economic security

The challenge of improving European economic security has grown in importance, with various relevant policy measures introduced at EU level

Conor McCaffrey and Niclas Poitiers

Research, innovation and data: a fifth freedom in the EU single market?

Research and innovation should be at the top of the EU economic policy agenda, but cannot over-rely on public investment

Bertin Martens

Lessons from the European Union’s inaugural Hydrogen Bank auction

The EU’s first subsidy auction for renewable hydrogen went about as well as could have been hoped

Ben McWilliams and James Kneebone

Three risks that must be addressed for new European Union fiscal rules to succeed

The reform, completed in April 2024, left implementation unaddressed, or at least open to very different potential outcomes

Lucio Pench

Rippling out: Biden’s tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and their impact on Europe

The US approach diverges from that of the EU, which is building a case for countervailing duties under WTO rules

Uri Dadush

Unpacking China’s industrial policy and its implications for Europe

This paper assess how beneficial industrial policy has been for China and how exportable to the European Union its model might be

Alicia García-Herrero and Robin Schindowski

How to de-risk: European economic security in a world of interdependence

The question is how exactly the EU should ‘de-risk’ its external economic relationships without foregoing the benefits of trade.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Using the financial system to enforce export controls

Russian imports of battlefield goods that are subject to export controls, including from Western producers, have surged since mid-2022

Benjamin Hilgenstock, Elina Ribakova, Guntram B. Wolff and Anna Vlasyuk

Beyond retirement: a closer look at the very old

The European Union should start to prepare for those over 85 making up 10 percent of the population in 2100

David Pinkus and Nina Ruer

EU savers need a single-market place to invest

Proposals to leverage the single market to boost retail investment could lead to a product citizens will trust

Rebecca Christie, Conor McCaffrey and David Pinkus

Income inequality and the liberal economic order: a not entirely Western perspective

This essay argues that global welfare gains should be safeguarded and built on, not undermined by a blinkered perception of liberalism.

The impact on the European Union of Ukraine’s potential future accession

This report evaluates the impact on the EU of a possible EU accession of Ukraine, focusing on economic consequences and institutional developments.

Zsolt Darvas, Marek Dabrowski, Heather Grabbe, Luca Léry Moffat, André Sapir and Georg Zachmann

Inclusive digital economy: a round-up of project research

The rise of automation, remote employment and a diversifying workforce will necessitate a shift in how we interact with new technology

Rebecca Christie

Economic arguments in favour of reducing copyright protection for generative AI inputs and outputs

The licensing of training inputs slows down economic growth compared to what it could be with competitive and high-quality GenAI

Bertin Martens

The rocky road to EU accession for Western Balkan countries: obstacles and lessons from the Eastern Partnership

The three eastern European states had practically no waiting time before being accepted as candidate countries right after application

Armin Steinbach