The Polish Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek has called for an EU-wide public investment programme to overcome the constraints behind Europe’s ‘secular stagnation’, in a recent VoxEU article.
Professor Portes president of CEPR, and Professor Weil, Chair of the Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee, address the need to restore and maintain the credibility of financial institutions across Europe by returning to economic growth, and how this can overcome the immediate and more latent problems faced by Europe in recent times.
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Gregory Crawford will head the Industrial Organisation Programme alongside Andrea Prat from 1st September, replacing Marc Ivaldi who held the post since 2003.
The eBook, edited by Coen Teulings and Richard Baldwin, features contributions from leading economists. The book is available for immediate download.
CEPR has been ranked number 2 on a list of top economics think tanks from across the world.
Charles Bean (left) was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, while Nicholas Crafts received a CBE.
The CEPR Business Cycle Dating Committee has concluded the euro area might be mired in a recession pause. Several quarters of positive but extremely weak economic developments since early 2013 do not constitute sufficient evidence that the euro area recession that started after 2011Q3 is over.
The Aid for Trade (AFT) initiative has been successful in mobilising funding to aid developing countries – in particular, the least developed – cope with the cost of implementing Uruguay Round commitments. However, whether the aid has really made a difference in their ability to take part in world trade growth remains unclear. This CEPR Press book shows how the wealth of available methods helps to confront the conceptual and measurement difficulties in identifying causal relationships from interventions to outcomes.
Mathias Dewatripont, CEPR's first Research Director, has been appointed Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Belgium.