Blogs&Reviews

  • How technology changed work, the workplace, and contracts

    Richard Baldwin, 24 April 2019

    Richard Baldwin discusses how digital technology has changed the nature of work, and how and where we do it.

  • The destination-based cash flow tax: A negative-revenue tax?

    David Laborde, William Martin, 18 April 2019

    David Laborde and Will Martin identify serious problems with the proposal to combine features of a VAT and a wage subsidy, especially for countries where the direct government revenue implications are strongly negative.

  • Why have pundits got politics so wrong since 2015?

    Simon Wren-Lewis, 16 April 2019

    Simon Wren-Lewis asks why pundits failed to see how far right the Conservatives were moving under Cameron, and the subsequent rise of Corbyn in 2015 and Labour’s gains during the 2017 campaign.

  • No ordinary woman

    Diane Coyle, 09 April 2019

    Diane Coyle reviews a biography of Edith Penrose written by her daughter-in-law, Angela Penrose.

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  • Untangling Brexit
    Dennis Snower, Rolf Langhammer, 07 January 2019

    Dennis Snower and Rolf Langhammer dispel some common myths regarding the Brexit negotiations and outline a proposal for a second referendum that addresses all major objections to such a referendum.

  • The 2018 market in a 250 year context
    Jon Danielsson, 02 January 2019

    After the financial markets finally closed at the end of the year, Jon Danielsson asks whether 2018 was as bad as the media would have it.

  • Five charts that explain the global economy in 2018
    Oya Celasun, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Maurice Obstfeld, 24 December 2018

    The global economy started 2018 on a positive note but the momentum lost steam. In this post, Oya Celasun, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, and Maurice Obstfeld explain the year in five charts. 

  • The lesson from George H.W. Bush’s tax reversal
    Jeffrey Frankel, 22 December 2018

    President George H.W. Bush was accused of breaking his own ‘no new taxes’ pledge. In this post, Jeffrey Frankel argues that Bush's mistake was making the anti-tax pledge in 1988 in the first place and sticking to it in the first part of his presidency. The 1990 reversal on fiscal policy set the stage for a decade of economic growth that eventually achieved budget surpluses.

  • Event studies and the random walk hypothesis: Why the end of bond buying by the ECB is a non-event
    Ansgar Belke, Daniel Gros, 21 December 2018

    The ending of the ECB's bond buying programme had no impact on interest rates. In this post, Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros argue that this is because while the programme might have lowered rates when it was announced, the impact was only transitory. 

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