✕
✕
✕

free market

November 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2016
Categories

Last Call for TTIP

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently in a negotiatory limbo. Even though the European Commission has estimated such an agreement would increase the size of the EU economy by at least €120 billion (or 0.5% of EU GDP) and the U.S economy by €95 billion (roughly 0.4% of U.S GDP), the deal looks more uncertain than ever before.
Do you like it?
Read more
November 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2016
Categories

Living on Credit

November 30 marks Credit Day across the European Union. Credit Day is the day when member states’ central administrations exhaust their annual tax revenues and have to begin borrowing in order to meet their spending commitments for the rest of the year.
Do you like it?
Read more
October 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on October 1, 2016
Categories

Innovation in Regulatory Approaches

An important part of the digital platform revolution is the sharing economy, which is based on reductions in transaction costs which enable exchanges that were previously not possible. Sharing economy firms facilitate a more efficient use of assets, to the benefit of both asset owners and prospective users.
Do you like it?
Read more
May 16, 2016
Published by IBL on May 16, 2016
Categories

An Interview with F. A. Hayek’s Student, Kurt Leube

“When I turned 15, my parents gave me a copy of “The Road to Serfdom”. Some of the ideas in Hayek’s book came as a shock to me, and I contacted the editor, who eventually gave me the address of Hayek’s summer residence in Tirol. I knocked and he opened his door. We started discussing, and we never stopped, until his last years.”
Do you like it?
Read more
May 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on May 1, 2016
Categories

TTIP: a Pre-mortem

o say that negotiations for an EU-U.S. trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), have lost momentum since they kicked off in the summer of 2013 is an understatement. The pact’s slow progress looks set to become the greatest disappointment since Scott Walker’s (remember him?) failed Republican presidential bid.
Do you like it?
Read more
May 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on May 1, 2016
Categories

Pricking the Balloon on Eurozone Deflation

As growth rates in the Eurozone gather steam, policymakers’ concerns are increasingly shifting to low inflation. According to Eurostat, consumer prices in the Eurozone have declined by 0.2% in the past year.
Do you like it?
Read more