Blogs&Reviews

USTR Lighthizer and US trade policy: Right goals, wrong strategy
Joshua P. Meltzer, 26 June 2020

Joshua Meltzer argues that the Trump administration has failed to provide a coherent vision for maintaining and expanding US competitiveness in the 21st century, including through its trade policy.
Is the EU ready to truly apply the subsidiarity principle?
Roel Beetsma, George Kopits, 15 June 2020

Roel Beetsma and George Koptis argue there is a strong legal and economic case for a timely application of the subsidiarity principle in establishing a permanent EU-wide countercyclical facility.
Will COVID-19 be followed by inflation? An inter-generational transfer perspective
Lubos Pastor, 12 June 2020

Lubos Pastor suggests that the easiest way for central banks to deal with COVID-spawned debt may be tolerate above-average inflation.
The independence of the central bank at risk
Peter Bofinger, Martin Hellwig, Michael Hüther, Monika Schnitzer, Moritz Schularick, Guntram Wolff, 08 June 2020

The authors of this blog are concerned that the recent judgement of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the ECB's monetary policy undermines the constitutional basis of the independence of the central bank and its price stability mandate.

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Trump's trade policy is hampering the US fight against COVID-19

Chad Bown, 16 March 2020

Chad Bown argues that President Trump's administration should permanently and comprehensively suspend the trade war tariffs on critical medical products from China
Limiting the economic fallout of the coronavirus with large targeted policies

Gita Gopinath, 12 March 2020

Gita Gopinath argues that substantial targeted policies are needed to support the economy through the COVID-19 epidemic
Time for the UK’s ‘budgetarians’ to make way for some proper fiscal policy

Jagjit Chadha, 09 March 2020

Jagjit Chadha argues that the sterile UK economic policy debate on whether an arbitrary fiscal rule will be met must be replaced by active fiscal policies that meet social and economic objectives
Designing an effective US policy response to coronavirus

David Wilcox, 05 March 2020

David Wilcox argues that a smart and rapid policy response to both the public health crisis and the likely economic slump in the US as a result of coronavirus is urgently needed
Google/Fitbit review: Privacy IS a competition issue

Cristina Caffarra, Tommaso Valletti, 04 March 2020

Cristina Caffarra and Tommaso Valletti argue that the role of data and the interface between competition and privacy issues is very broad and goes further than privacy as a parameter of competition