Publications

Something is rotten in Italy, namely Italian bank loans amounting to € 360 billion. For around one out of five loans payback is doubtful. Such an imbalance in the Italian…

During the next months the Olympic Games will take place in Brazil. As was already the case during the Football World Championships 2014, we will see many reports about the…

WP 2016-04. The key requirement for economic prosperity is the rule of law. In turn, a critical component of the rule of law is an effective judicial system, which is…

A difficult economic scenario The Serbian economy needs a shock to take a path of recovery based on growth and modernization. The IMF recently argued that even if the country…

Post Brexit, Sterling weakens. Brexit will retest Central Banks’ Firepower. Will Scotland’s Resurgent Independence Campaign Want to Keep the Pound? The reaction of financial markets to the Brexit vote was…

Our latest Policy Paper is now available. Taxing corporations: why it is not only bad, but unjust by Pierre Bessard and Fabio Cappelletti (Liberal Institute, Geneva, Switzerland).

In recent years the issue of how much taxes corporations pay (and how much they should) has become extremely salient in Western countries. The attention to this issue has been…

Some figures on the sharing economy The sharing economy is a market system that requires peer-to-peer-based sharing of access to goods and services. The sharing is possible thanks to the…

On Monday the 6th of June 2016 an IREF workshop in cooperation with St. Mary’s University took place in London. International academic presenters gave talks on their recent research articles,…

Central Banking Brexit Fervour Underscores the Weakness of Economic Forecasting. Increasingly Outlandish Economic Arguments on Both Sides of the Brexit Debate. The Bank of England’s intervention is questionable. As apolitical…