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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Are emerging and developing economies ready for a global downturn?

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, 20 December 2019

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu describes how emerging and developing economies, which are currently less prepared for another steep global downturn than they were a decade ago, can ramp up growth by adopting ambitious and credible reform agendas
Act now to save the WTO

Ernesto Zedillo, 09 December 2019

The US threatens the WTO by blocking appointments to its Appellate Body for settling disputes, but as Ernesto Zedillo explains, other WTO members could override the veto
How the ‘Facebook cooperative’ could point the way for the network economy

Hans-Jörg Naumer, 30 November 2019

Hans-Jörg Naumer makes the case for data cooperatives that would allow the providers of data, i.e. the users, to own shares in the platforms they use.
Is globalisation doomed?

Pascal Lamy, 27 November 2019

Pascal Lamy argues that the future of globalisation depends on our capacity to direct the dominant economic system – capitalism – towards a different course
Configuring the lumpy economy

Diane Coyle, 21 November 2019

Diane Coyle reviews a new book by Lee Anne Fennell which looks at the implications of the reality that economic resources are lumpy and variably sliceable