Publications

WP 2024-10. Executive Summary When comparing inflation across European countries, we often overlook a simple fact – inflation is the percentage change in the price level. The rate of inflation…

While campaigning in Flint (MI), former President Donald Trump was asked how he would tackle rising food prices. In response, he suggested that import tariffs would do the job, and…

Introduction Governments and central banks have pinned a lot of their credibility on returning the world economy, after the Pandemic and the inflation shock, to an orderly picture of inflation…

In recent years, the gig economy has dramatically reshaped the nature of work across the European Union. Platforms like Uber, Deliveroo, and Upwork have provided flexible opportunities to millions who…

In mid-September former ECB President Mario Draghi published a 400-page report recommending changes necessary to boost the EU’s competitiveness.  Although couched in broadly positive language, the document did little to…

Youth unemployment remains a significant global issue, with young people consistently overrepresented among the jobless. With more than 64 million unemployed youth worldwide and 145 million young workers living in…

As public awareness of AI and machine learning technologies has grown, so has the demand for ethical safeguards and increased transparency. In response, the European Parliament introduced the AI Act,…

“Shocking data”: according to the Corriere della Sera, the main Italian newspaper, “the cold has disappeared” as a result of climate change and last year, the Guardian tells us, heatwaves…

In Italy, the spotlight on tax evasion, and therefore on the need to fight it, turns on whenever the government needs additional resources to finance expenses. To avoid upsetting voters,…

WP 2024-04. Executive Summary Intuitively, crime and entrepreneurship are radically opposed in desirability and empirical effects. Yet, recent research has deliberately chosen to go beyond certain obvious facts, creating —…