The Community of Advantage by Robert Sugden has just been published by Oxford University Press. The author is a professor at the University of East Anglia, a member of the…
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Background to MIFID, MIFIR and EMIR Version 2 of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID II) is a particularly important piece of recent European Law due to the extent…
US President Donald Trump’s (in)famous tweet-storms have been used as anecdotal evidence of his volatility, anger, etc., but they are also an important source of policy information. After all, it…
Crises, shortages, and bad news are often dominating daily politics and media coverage. Under the radar of politics and media, however, highly desirable developments have been taking place. Among those…
WP 2018-11. Executive Summary.
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The Stand-off Between Italy and the EU is a Serious Threat to the Euro
by
Gordon Kerr
Why all the fuss? The nub of the dispute is Italy’s budget plans, which have been rejected by the European Commission (EC). The budget claims to increase public indebtedness by…
There exists more or less a consensus that the state must promote the arts. This exists even among many who know that state intervention brings market distortions, and it should…
The European Fiscal Board (EFB) – an agency established in 2015 by the European Commission to evaluate the implementation of EU fiscal rules and to advise the Commission on fiscal policies…
In a recent paper titled “Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science Between 2010 and 2015“, a group of researchers set out to replicate a series…
In September, the UK cross party Parliamentary Committee dealing with bank regulation and central banking published its analysis of the opportunities and risks posed by ‘crypto-assets’, such as Bitcoin, Ether,…
