Publications

Our publications aim to provide in-depth information on issues that are at the forefront of the European agenda, including commentary, research, and policy recommendations.

The center produces policy briefs, working papers, five bullets and a monthly newsletter. All publications are available online.

Policy Briefs

C. Bastasin: A rearview mirror mentality wrapped in a small-country syndrome

A year ago, the European Union reached its Hamiltonian moment. The sense of human solidarity in the face of death and th...

May 31, 2021

F. Passacantando: Could a digital currency strengthen the euro?

The introduction of a digital euro could transform not only the way European citizens will make pay- ments in the future...

May 5, 2021

V. Termini – The risk of inflation cannot be our priority: The effect’s of Biden’s economic policy

Today we are going through a deep economic crisis, different from the ones that we were accustomed to. It was brought on...

April 22, 2021

G. L. Tosato – Common debt: NextGeneration is not the first case

The feared judges in Karlsruhe will soon have to rule on the constitutionality in Germany of the planned issue of Eurobo...

April 11, 2021

C. Bastasin – The Draghi Government: The Europe factor in investor choices

The start of the Draghi government is surrounded by a high level of uncertainty. The climate in which the economic polic...

March 29, 2021

E. Avgouleas, S. Micossi – On selling sovereigns held by the ECB to the ESM: Institutional and economic policy implications

This paper follows up on a CEPS Policy Insight of October 2020, in which Stefano Micossi argued that the increase in sov...

March 22, 2021

P. Nicolaides: Unprecedented State Intervention

EU Member States have granted very large amounts of state aid to counteract the impact of the covid- 19 pandemic and the...

March 3, 2021

R. Perissich: Why the EU needs a common foreign policy (and what it would take to have one)

As a result of an ill-advised military intervention by some European countries, Libya has been in a state of bloody civi...

February 28, 2021

V. Termini – Europe on the move: First steps towards a multilateral global scenario

Europe is on the move on three fronts which, in combination, are leading towards a truly extraordinary scenario. At the ...

February 24, 2021

Working Papers

C. Battiati, C. Jona-Lasinio, E. Marvasi, S. Sopranzetti – Market power and productivity trends in the European economies: A macroeconomic perspective

Recent empirical investigations have documented an upward trend in profit rates, markups, and concentration over the las...

January 18, 2021

J. Bonchi, F. S. Lucidi – Asset Price Bubbles with Low Interest Rates: Not All Bubbles are Likely to Emerge

Leveraged asset price bubbles, i.e., boom-bust phases in asset prices accompanied by credit overhangs, are more harmful ...

December 5, 2020

L. Codogno, P. van den Noord: Assessing Next Generation EU

The unprecedented fiscal package adopted by the European Council in the summer of 2020 ―dubbed Next Generation EU―is...

November 30, 2020

P. Benigno, P. Canofari, G. Di Bartolomeo, M.Messori: Uncertainty and the Pandemic Shocks

The COVID-19 pandemic shocks are a significant source of uncertainty in several aspects. In particular, these shocks inf...

November 11, 2020

G. Ascari, J. Bonchi: (Dis)Solving the Zero Lower Bound Equilibrium through Income Policy

We investigate the possibility to reflate an economy experiencing a long-lasting zero lower bound episode with subdued o...

October 23, 2020

C. De Vincenti, S. Facciolini: Mercati postali, servizio universale, regolazione

Quali sono le caratteristiche strutturali del mercato dei servizi postali rilevanti per la definizione del quadro normat...

October 12, 2020

P. Benigno, P. Canofari, G. Di Bartolomeo, M. Messori: Theory, Evidence, and Risks of the ECB’s Asset Purchase Programme

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the ECB has relaunched a massive asset purchase programme within its combined-arms m...

October 2, 2020

L. Codogno, P. van den Noord: Going fiscal? A stylised model with fiscal capacity and a Eurobond in the Eurozone

The paper shows that the introduction a Eurobond together with fiscal capacity at the centre would produce macro-stabili...

April 9, 2020

G. Galli: The reform of the ESM and why it is so controversial in Italy

Key Points The draft reform of the European Stability Mechanism (henceforth ESM) was not approved as scheduled at the Eu...

April 8, 2020

Monthly Briefs

Five Bullets

Europe: Facts & Docs

This section contains policy documents, meeting summaries and news that come directly from the EU institutions.

Breaking the persistence of inflation – Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the ECB Forum on Central Banking 2023 on “Macroeconomic stabilisation in a volatile inflation environment” in Sintra, Portugal – June 27, 2023

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June 28, 2023

EU budget: Commission proposes to reinforce long-term EU budget to face most urgent challenges – June 20, 2023

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June 26, 2023

European Semester 2023: country-specific recommendations agreed – June 16, 2023

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June 19, 2023

ECB Press Conference – June 15, 2023

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June 19, 2023

Sustainable Finance: Commission takes further steps to boost investment for a sustainable future – June 13, 2023

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June 13, 2023

Banking Union and Capital Markets Union – Keynote speech by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, at the Annual Joint Conference of the European Commission and the European Central Bank on European Financial Integration – June 7, 2023

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June 7, 2023

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament – June 5, 2023

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June 7, 2023

Keynote speech by Commission President von der Leyen at the GLOBSEC 2023 Bratislava Forum – May 31, 2023

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June 7, 2023

Press statement by President von der Leyen with Italian Prime Minister Meloni – May 25, 2023

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May 29, 2023

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