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March 10, 2017
Attempting to start a debate ahead of the EU’s summit commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the European Commission published a White Paper on the Future of Europe.
March 1, 2017
Since the European Commission’s Action Plan on Building a Capital Markets Union in 2015, strengthening and integrating capital markets across the Union has been one of the EU’s main priorities and one of the central pillars of the Investment Plan for Europe (informally known as the Juncker Plan).
February 10, 2017
Mario Draghi´s latest comments expressing his support for continuing the European Central Bank´s Quantitative Easing drew much controversy from northern Eurozone countries, especially Germany, which have been trying to end the asset purchasing program for months.
January 16, 2017
Since Donald Trump’s election, US bank stocks have risen around 24 percent. Moreover, UK bank stocks have reached 6-month highs in January, albeit tempered by the fall in the sterling exchange rate since June.
January 5, 2017
Behavioural economics is not a challenge to neo-classical ways of thinking. It sits firmly within the neo-classical framework.
January 4, 2017
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, the European press has been presenting him as an isolationist. Under President Trump, they claim, the USA will look after itself alone and retreat from the rest of the world. Economically, international trade is finished, they allege, whilst militarily, NATO will be abandoned.
December 20, 2016
As the festive season approaches, it’s time for economists’ annual disquisition on the efficiency of gift-giving. This tradition was inaugurated, more than twenty years ago, by Joel Waldfogel, then at Yale University, who formalised the critique that non-cash presents are economically wasteful.
December 8, 2016
On December 5th, Paul Magnette, the current Minister-President of the French-speaking region of Wallonia, Belgium, unveiled his so-called “Namur Declaration”, a 3-page-long statement whose aim is to “radically remake” EU trade policy.
December 7, 2016
It has been one year and a half since Professor Nicola Rossi and I started the Superindex at Istituto Bruno Leoni. The Superindex is an “ex-post performance indicator” of the impact of economic reforms, the main objective of which is to evaluate the path followed by selected European countries.
