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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
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
C. Bastasin: German political earthquake may have consequences on the banking union and the ESM
A change of leadership in the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior partner in the German coalition government, may ...
November 28, 2019
L. Codogno – The fiscal stimulus that is not: why there is no fiscal expansion in sight for the eurozone
As in Peter Pan’s fictional island of Neverland, people in Euroland refuse to grow up and face reality. The “never-n...
November 13, 2019
C. Bastasin: The strange reasons why Europe will have a “Golden Rule” in 2020
As recently as the beginning of 2018, the International Monetary Fund issued one of its most upbeat economic forecasts i...
October 23, 2019
L. Carpentieri, S. Micossi, P. Parascandolo: Overhauling corporate taxation in the digital economy
Is the corporate income tax (CIT) still an efficient system for taxing companies today? The CIT was introduced when econ...
October 22, 2019
P. C. Padoan: Public Debt Reduction in Uncertain Times – With a View to Europe
We live in uncertain times both economically – growth remains weak, especially in the fundamentals – and in ...
September 16, 2019
S. Micossi: A new drive for the Capital Markets Union
For two decades, the lack of private investment has been one of Europe’s biggest economic weaknesses, undermining prod...
September 13, 2019
M. Messori: The potentials and the dangers of the Italian economy in a renewed euro area
Overcoming the political and institutional tensions that have characterized Italy in the last fourteen months opens up n...
September 12, 2019
A. Franconi: Mini-Bot: Ingenuity or Ignorance
With the infringement procedure launched by the European Union against Italy in December 2017 (not to be confused with t...
September 6, 2019
Working Papers
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
P. Benigno, S. Nisticò: Non-Neutrality of Open-Market Operations
Unconventional open-market operations can have consequences for inflation and out- put because of income losses on centr...
June 15, 2015
Monthly Briefs
Five Bullets
Europe: Facts & Docs
This section contains policy documents, meeting summaries and news that come directly from the EU institutions.
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
Monetary policy in a new environment – Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the European Banking Congress, November 18
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November 21, 2022
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