Policy Insights

24 Nov 2020		Two proposals to resurrect the Banking Union: The Safe Portfolio Approach and SRB+ Luis Garicano
30 Sep 2020		Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers Marc Bourreau, Cristina Caffarra, Zhijun Chen, Chongwoo Choe, Gregory S. Crawford, Tomaso Duso, Christos D. Genakos, Paul Heidhues, Martin Peitz, Thomas Rønde, Monika Schnitzer, Nicolas Schutz, Michelle Sovinsky, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Otto Toivanen, Tommaso Valletti, Thibaud Vergé
16 Sep 2020		Preparing for the next crisis: How to secure the supply of essential goods and services Natalia Fabra, Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz
14 Sep 2020		The ACCC's 'bargaining code': A path towards 'decentralised regulation' of dominant digital platforms? Cristina Caffarra, Gregory S. Crawford
29 Jul 2020		Averting Catastrophic Debt Crises in Developing Countries Extraordinary challenges call for extraordinary measures Hamid Rashid, Joseph E Stiglitz
21 Apr 2020		Born Out of Necessity: A Debt Standstill for COVID-19 Patrick Bolton, Lee. C Buchheit, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Mitu Gulati, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Ugo Panizza, Beatrice Weder di Mauro
08 Apr 2020		India's Lockdown Debraj Ray, S Subramanian, Lore Vandewalle
07 Apr 2020		The "burden" of Swiss public debt: Lessons from research and options for the future Cédric Tille
11 May 2020		iPhones, iCrises and iTargets: Inflation Targeting is eradicating International Financial Crises in the iPhone era Andrew K Rose
16 Mar 2020		Understanding the Global Waves of Debt Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, Naotaka Sugawara
07 Jan 2020		Economic Policy in the Rough: A European Journey Marco Buti
08 Oct 2019		Herd behaviour in asset market booms and crashes: the role of monetary policy Alexandra D'Onofrio, Stefano Micossi, Fabrizia Peirce
04 Oct 2019		The roots of populism in Europe, the United States and Latin America Guillermo de la Dehesa
01 Oct 2018		Euro area reform: An anatomy of the debate Jean Pisani-Ferry
12 Jun 2018		Ten Years after Bear Stephen G Cecchetti, Kermit L. Schoenholtz
01 Jun 2018		Safety Without Tranches: Creating a 'real' safe asset for the euro area Álvaro Leandro, Jeromin Zettelmeyer
20 Mar 2018		Independent report on the Greek official debt Emilios Avgouleas, Barry Eichengreen, Ugo Panizza, Miguel Poiares Maduro, Richard Portes, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Charles Wyplosz, Jeromin Zettelmeyer
17 Jan 2018		Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Markus K Brunnermeier, Henrik Enderlein, Emmanuel Farhi, Marcel Fratzscher, Clemens Fuest, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Martin, Florence Pisani, Hélène Rey, Nicolas Véron, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Jeromin Zettelmeyer
29 Jun 2017		Greece's sovereign debt and economic realism Jeremy I. Bulow, John Geanakoplos
25 May 2017		Welfare: Savings not Taxation Roger Douglas, Robert MacCulloch
29 Mar 2017		Post-Brexit trade and development policy Richard Baldwin, Paul Collier, Anthony Venables
26 Jan 2017		Central bank independence under threat? Jakob de Haan, Sylvester C W Eijffinger
21 Oct 2016		Secular stagnation, bubbles, fiscal policy, and the introduction of the pill Jason Lu, Coen N Teulings
19 Nov 2015		Rebooting the Eurozone: Step 1 ? agreeing a crisis narrative Richard Baldwin, Thorsten Beck, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Giancarlo Corsetti, Paul De Grauwe, Wouter Den Haan, Francesco Giavazzi, Daniel Gros, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Stefano Micossi, Elias Papaioannou, Paolo Pesenti, Christopher Pissarides, Guido Tabellini, Beatrice Weder di Mauro
29 Jul 2015		A world without the WTO: what?s at stake? Richard Baldwin, Nakatomi Michitaka
28 Jul 2015		The economics of insurance and its borders with general finance Christian Thimann
12 Jun 2015		Graded security from theory to practice Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi, Espen R Moen
06 May 2015		Maturity mismatch stretching: Banking has taken a wrong turn Charles A Goodhart, Enrico C Perotti
25 Feb 2015		Fiscal multipliers in downturns and the effects of Eurozone consolidation Sebastian Gechert, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Ansgar Rannenberg
24 Feb 2015		The labour market of Israeli Arabs: Key features and policy solutions Nasir Kasir, Eran Yashiv
22 Jan 2015		Cross-border financial linkages: Identifying and measuring vulnerabilities Philip R. Lane
17 Dec 2014		The jury is in Stephen G Cecchetti
30 Nov 2014		ECB policy and Fed normalisation Athanasios Orphanides
03 Oct 2014		The German Constitutional Court?s decision on OMT: Have markets misunderstood? Helmut Siekmann, Volker Wieland
20 Jun 2014		The economics of Scottish independence in an interdependent world Andrew Hughes Hallett
05 Jun 2014		Capital controls in the 21st century Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K Rose
03 Mar 2014		Making city lights shine brighter Danny Leipziger, Shahid Yusuf
06 Feb 2014		The euro in the 'currency war' Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Martin, Guillaume Plantin
16 Jan 2014		The roots of shadow banking Enrico C Perotti
18 Dec 2013		The aftermath of the crisis: Regulation, supervision and the role of central banks Ignazio Visco
04 Nov 2013		What?s wrong with Europe? Paolo Manasse, Isabella Rota Baldini
18 Jun 2013		The roots of the Italian Stagnation Paolo Manasse
15 Apr 2013		How the EZ crisis is permanently changing EU institutions Stefano Micossi
21 Dec 2012		WTO 2.0: Global governance of supply-chain trade Richard Baldwin
10 Sep 2012		Is US economic growth over? Faltering innovation confronts the six headwinds Robert J Gordon
31 Aug 2012		The economic crisis: How to stimulate economies without increasing public debt Richard Wood
26 Mar 2012		From vicious to virtuous: A five-point plan for Eurozone restoration Marco Buti, Pier Carlo Padoan
24 Nov 2011		Deep integration and production networks Gianluca Orefice, Nadia Rocha
12 Oct 2011		Resolving the Eurozone crisis: Time for conditional eurobonds John Muellbauer
12 Oct 2011		A framework for two macro policy instruments: Money and banking combined Hans Gersbach
05 Sep 2011		The implications of intra-euro area imbalances in credit flows Willem H. Buiter, Juergen Michels, Ebrahim Rahbari
20 May 2011		21st Century Regionalism: filling the gap between 21st century trade and 20th century trade rules Richard Baldwin
21 Apr 2011		Global growth generators: Moving beyond emerging markets and BRICs Willem H. Buiter, Ebrahim Rahbari
08 Apr 2011		Global imbalances and the paradox of thrift W Max Corden
03 Feb 2011		Nature of an economy Axel Leijonhufvud
13 Oct 2010		Systemic liquidity risk and bankruptcy exceptions Enrico C Perotti
12 Oct 2010		Greece and the Fiscal Crisis in Europe Willem H. Buiter, Ebrahim Rahbari
11 Aug 2010		Competition and stability in banking Xavier Vives
07 Jun 2010		Understanding the GATT?s wins and the WTO?s woes Richard Baldwin
04 May 2010		Eurozone reform: A proposal Jacques Melitz
04 May 2010		Some observations on 'political' in EMU Francesco Paolo Mongelli
10 Mar 2010		On the benefits and costs of a monetary union Francesco Paolo Mongelli
28 Jan 2010		Financial system reform proposals from first principles Alberto Giovannini
25 Jan 2010		The saga of Icesave Jón Daníelsson
12 Jan 2010		Ambulance economics: the pros and cons of fiscal stimuli W Max Corden
23 Nov 2009		Income contingent tuition fees for universities Neil Shephard
20 Nov 2009		Macroeconomics and the Crisis: A Personal Appraisal Axel Leijonhufvud
30 Sep 2009		Liquidity Risk Charges as a Macroprudential Tool Enrique G Mendoza, Enrico C Perotti, Carlos A Vegh
30 Sep 2009		How big are fiscal multipliers? Ethan Ilzetzki, Enrique G Mendoza, Carlos A Vegh
12 Aug 2009		Economists and economics: What does the crisis tell us? Luigi Spaventa
11 Aug 2009		Will they sing the same tune? Measuring convergence in the new European system of financial supervisors Donato Masciandaro, Maria J Nieto, Marc G. Quintyn
10 Jul 2009		Curbing instability: policy and regulation Axel Leijonhufvud
05 Jun 2009		Boosting the availability of trade finance in the current crisis: Background analysis for a substantial G20 package Marc Auboin
19 May 2009		The theory of the fiscal stimulus: How will a debt-financed stimulus affect the future? W Max Corden
06 May 2009		Trade policy in a time of crisis: Suggestions for developing countries Gary C Hufbauer, Sherry Stephenson
03 Mar 2009		Incentive roots of the securitisation crisis and its early mismanagement Edward J Kane
27 Feb 2009		Liquidity insurance for systemic crises Enrico C Perotti, Javier Suarez
02 Feb 2009		Reforming financial supervision and the role of central banks: a review of global trends, causes and effects (1998-2008) Donato Masciandaro, Marc G. Quintyn
13 Jan 2009		Two Systematic Problems Axel Leijonhufvud
12 Jan 2009		The Crisis of 2008: Structural lessons for and from economics Daron Acemoglu
03 Dec 2008		Crisis Management in the EU Sylvester C W Eijffinger
28 Oct 2008		The Icelandic banking crisis and what to do about it Willem H. Buiter, Anne Sibert
28 Jul 2008		Peg the Export Price Jeffrey A Frankel
16 May 2008		Can Central Banks Go Broke? Willem H. Buiter
12 May 2008		Keynes and the Crisis Axel Leijonhufvud
08 May 2008		Avoiding Disorderly Deleveraging Luigi Spaventa
10 Apr 2008		Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 Stephen G Cecchetti
01 Apr 2008		Structural Inflation and Real Exchange Rate Appreciation in Visegrad-4 Countries: Balassa-Samuelson or Something Else? Balázs Égert, Jiri Podpiera
27 Mar 2008		The Need for an Emergency Bank Debt Insurance Mechanism Javier Suarez
18 Dec 2007		Lessons from the 2007 Financial Crisis Willem H. Buiter
10 Dec 2007		Introducing a Global Database on Migrant Stocks L. Alan Winters
03 Dec 2007		Can offshoring create domestic jobs? Evidence from Japanese data Mitsuyo Ando, Fukunari Kimura
07 Nov 2007		The Happy Few: New Facts About the Internationalisation of European Firms Thierry Mayer, Gianmarco Ottaviano
25 Oct 2007		Monetary and Financial Stability Axel Leijonhufvud
12 Sep 2007		The EU's Common Agricultural Policy at Fifty: An International Perspective Kym Anderson, Timothy E. Josling
07 Sep 2007		Why Do Americans Work More than Europeans? Differences in Career Prospects Claudio Michelacci, Josep Pijoan-Mas
03 Sep 2007		Reciprocity and the Doha Round Impasse: Lessons for the Near-Term and After Simon J Evenett
08 Aug 2007		Latin America and the Asian Giants Daniel Lederman, Marcelo Olarreaga, Guillermo Perry
01 Aug 2007		How You Don't Play Like Your Kid And Why It Matters Marco Cipriani, Paola Giuliano, Olivier Jeanne
30 Jul 2007		Openness to Trade and Industry Productivity Dispersion Gianmarco Ottaviano
17 Jul 2007		Nobody Does I.T. Better Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
28 Jun 2007		Can Markets Be Trusted? Steffen Huck, Jean-Robert Tyran
15 Jun 2007		Pandora's (Ballot) Box: Can the Constitution voting rules be improved? Richard Baldwin, Mika Widgrén
08 Jun 2007		The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001 Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
07 Jun 2007		Does the EU need a new Treaty? Richard Baldwin, Mika Widgrén
06 Jun 2007		Rethinking Trade Preferences to Help Diversity African Exports Paul Collier, Anthony Venables
01 Jun 2007		Are International Financial Crises a Relic of the Past? Inflation Targeting as a Monetary Vaccine Andrew K Rose