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Competition policy and European firms’ competitiveness
Massimo Motta, Martin Peitz, 20 February 2019

Massimo Motta and Martin Peitz ask whether merger control obstructs or promotes European firms’ competitiveness, whether there is room for public policy considerations beyond competition policy goals when dealing with competition-related issues, and what can be done to promote the competitiveness of European firms both within and beyond Europe.
A world with central bank digital currencies
Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Itai Agur, Anil Ari, John Kiff, Adina Popescu, Céline Rochon, Zoltan Jakab, 15 February 2019

In this post, a group of IMF economists examine why central banks might consider issuing digitial currency, and how households and firms might adapt.
The ECB has reached its political limits. Its consequences in eight charts
Ashoka Mody, 11 February 2019

In this post, Ashoka Mody documents the costs of ECB timidity, which, he argues, arises from the political limits on its actions.
Hard Brexit ahead: Breaking the deadlock and restarting customs cooperation in Europe
Gabriel Felbermayr, Clemens Fuest, Hans Gersbach, Albrecht Ritschl, Marcel Thum, Martin Braml, 07 February 2019

The authors of this post argue that while the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations can be broken by tweaking the time limits of the Withdrawal Agreement and at the same time abandoning the backstop, a more viable long-term solution is a European Customs Association where Britain has active membership and a full vote alongside the EU member states.

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