Read the full opinion. A multi-disciplinary team of over 30 scientists from all across Europe have joined forces to issue a statement to address the wave of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. The statement was published in the renowned British Medical Journal (BMJ) on...
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The euro comes of age
This opinion piece was originally published in Money Review section of Kathimerini and is forthcoming in Cyprus Economics Society, Cyprus Mail and El Economista. Anniversaries are always a good time to reflect. The euro celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its...
Understanding Japan’s economic relations with China
This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics. ZhōngHuá Mundus is a newsletter by Bruegel, bringing you monthly analysis of China in the world, as seen from Europe. Check the previous editions of ZhōngHuá Mundus Sign up for the...
How an open climate club can generate carbon dividends for the poor
A short version of this piece was originally published by Euractiv and in Le Grand Continent in both French and Italian. COP26 has raised climate ambition. Yet, the world remains on track for a 2.4°C increase in global temperature above pre-industrial levels by the...
A role for the Recovery and Resilience Facility in a new fiscal framework
This opinion piece was originally published in Kathimerini. EU countries used fiscal policy to deal with the health crisis and contain the economic fallout that followed. But the EU collectively has also provided a recovery plan with the creation of the Recovery and...
The European economy in 2022
Happy New Year and welcome back to The Sound of Economics! In this first episode of 2022, Guntram Wolff is joined by Irene Tinagli MEP, Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament to discuss what dominated European economic...
What the EU climate package has to overcome in 2022
Read the full article published as ‘Welche Hürden das EU-Klimaschutzpaket 2022 im Verkehr nehmen muss’ in Tagesspiegel.
The Euro at 20
Read the full piece as published on Project Syndicate.
Sustainability transition and the European Green Deal: A macro-dynamic perspective
Download the full report. This report presents the results of the work carried out at ETC/WMGE on Green economy transition: Macroeconomic analytical framework in 2020 and 2021. The main aim was to provide the arguments for adopting a macro-level perspective to the...
What will be the economic impact of Europe’s next round of COVID-19 restrictions?
After a relatively relaxed summer, many European countries are hastily imposing new coronavirus-related restrictions on popular activities. Measures include limiting or prohibiting public attendance at large events, and in many cases restricting indoor dining and...
2022 to see monetary decoupling between West and East
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Timely measurement of real effective exchange rates
This working paper updates the earlier methodological description of the dataset published as Darvas, Z. (2012) ‘Real effective exchange rates for 178 countries: A new database’, Working Paper 2012/06, Bruegel We demonstrate that short-run real exchange effective rate...