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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

S. Micossi, F. Peirce: Overcoming the gridlock in EMU decision-making

The completion of EMU, and banking union as its critical component, requires that certain taboos in the policy debate ar...

March 17, 2020

I. Angeloni: ECB should turn to supervisory forbearance

The European Central Bank under Christine Lagarde, its new president, must decide at its governing council meeting on 12...

March 15, 2020

M. Messori – The economy in the time of the coronavirus: The different limits of the monetary and fiscal policies

The dramatic coronavirus pandemic will likely have heavy and prolonged recessive effects on the European and internation...

March 15, 2020

R. Perissich: A tale of four balls and one grenade

After the 2016 Brexit referendum, the UK and the EU have gone through more than 3 years of negotiations that were someti...

February 28, 2020

R. Tamborini: Beware of pitfalls in the Review of Policy Strategy of the European Central Bank

After taking office on November 1, 2019, the most important announcement from the new President of the European Central ...

January 24, 2020

C. Bastasin: Italy and Germany in Trump’s cross hairs

While the US and China trade rift is settling down, President Trump is setting his sights on Europe and, surprisingly, I...

January 17, 2020

L. Codogno, M. Monti: Taking stock of Christine Lagarde’s challenges at the ECB

Christine Lagarde’s reign at the European Central Bank (ECB) has heralded a shift not in the monetary policy field, bu...

January 14, 2020

C. Bastasin: The Year of “Eufouria”

The resolve of a self-professed geopolitical European Commission will be severely tested in the coming months. President...

January 14, 2020

L. Bini Smaghi: Is the ECB at risk of becoming an underachiever?

Over the past eight years the European Central Bank has systematically failed to achieve its primary objective of price ...

January 10, 2020

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Working Papers

F. Landini: Distortions in Firm Selection During Recessions

Recent evidence documents the weakness of market selection based on productivity differentials and the absence of cleans...

October 15, 2016

P. Esposito, M. Messori: IMPROVED STRUCTURAL COMPETITIVENESS OR DEEP RECESSION?

One of the main problems facing the European Monetary Union is the macroeconomic imbalances between ‘core’ and ‘pe...

March 21, 2016

A. Cardaci, F. Saraceno: Inequality, Financialisation and Credit Booms: a Model of Two Crises

We develop a macroeconomic model with an agent-based household sector and a stock-flow consistent structure, in order to...

February 11, 2016

F. Saraceno, R. Tamborini: How can it work? On the impact of Quantitative Easing in the Eurozone

How can the quantitative easing (QE) programme launched in March 2015 by the ECB be successful in the Eurozone (EZ)? Wha...

February 1, 2016

P. Schlosser – ‘Tightening the knot’: strengthening fiscal surveillance in EMU during the euro crisis

One of the key regularities which appeared to hold so far in European integration is that the closer a policy issue lies...

November 30, 2015

P. Canofari, M. Messori: Exit Risks and Contagion in the Euro Area

This paper aims to assess the possible impact that the depreciation of a common currency can have on the stability of th...

November 20, 2015

F. Landini, A. Arrighetti, A. Lasagni – Economic Crisis and Firm Exit: Do Intangibles Matter?

The crisis in the Euro area has caused several business closures, especially in the EMU periphery. In this paper we use ...

November 15, 2015

G. Bruzzone, M. Cassella, S. Micossi: The EU Regulatory Framework for Bank Resolution

The financial crisis of 2008-09 and the ensuing sovereign debt and banking crises within the eurozone exposed the presen...

October 31, 2015

F. Balassone, M. Committeri – Europe and the IMF: nec sine te, nec tecum …

As the sovereign debt crisis burst in 2010, the European Union lacked both the instruments and the expertise to manage t...

June 21, 2015

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Monthly Briefs

Five Bullets

Europe: Facts & Docs

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

Conclusions from the European Council – December 16, 2022

On the first of two days of meetings, the European Council adopted conclusions on Ukraine/Russia, energy, economy, secur...

December 19, 2022

ECB Press Conference – December 15, 2022

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December 15, 2022

Taxation: Embracing the digital transition to help fight VAT fraud and support EU businesses – December 8, 2022

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December 13, 2022

Monetary policy and the economic outlook – Interview with Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB – December 6, 2022

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December 13, 2022

Monetary policy and the economic outlook – Interview with ECB Chief Economist Philip R. Lane – December 6, 2022

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December 6, 2022

Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates) – December 2, 2022

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December 6, 2022

Conference on the Future of Europe: citizens demand more from the EU – December 2, 2022

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December 5, 2022

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Hearing of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament – November 28

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November 29, 2022

European Commission – Building an economic governance framework fit for the challenges ahead, November 9

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November 21, 2022

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