Discussing how geopolitical relationships affect trade, with a focus on supply chains, trade finance and crossborder payments
Europe lags behind in innovation. Clemens Fuest, Daniel Gros, Philipp-Leo Mengel, Giorgio Presidente and Jean Tirole describe how its industry seems stuck in a middle-technology trap and argue that EU innovation policy should support disruptive innovation to break this path dependency
Reforming innovation policy to help the EU escape the middle-technology trap Read More »
The Western Balkan countries are moving towards European Union accession. Armin Steinbach examines the obstacles and lessons from the Eastern Partnership
The rocky road to European Union accession Read More »
Industrial policy is undergoing a major resurgence. Cristina Caffarra and Nathaniel Lane argue that getting Europe to improve performance will require a massive, concerted effort at national and EU levels
Not a ‘side dish’: new industrial policy and competition Read More »
China is approaching a fork in the road: rely on the policies that have worked in the past or update its policies for a new era of high-quality growth. Kristalina Georgieva discusses
Advancing China’s sustainable economic growth Read More »
The WTO e-commerce moratorium has been renewed. Andrea Andrenelli and Javier López González explore the different issues around the moratorium debate
Understanding the scope, definition, and impact of the WTO e-commerce moratorium Read More »
The threats of geoeconomic fragmentation have accelerated in recent years. Alessandro D’Orazio, Fabrizio Ferriani and Andrea Gazzani introduce a novel firm-level revenue-weighted geopolitical risk index
Geoeconomic fragmentation and firms’ financial performance Read More »
Cristina Caffarra and Burcu Kilic describe how antitrust thinking has been undergoing a major shift in the US, and ‘antimonopoly’ has become a broader value in multiple areas of economic policy
Re-joining trade with antitrust measures Read More »
Countries use their economic strength to achieve geopolitical goals. Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger present a novel framework to understand how a hegemon in the international system exerts its power within its economic network
A framework for geoeconomic power Read More »
Isabel Schnabel emphasises the euro area’s strengths in social protection and environmental initiatives, and advocates measure to close the euro area’s technology gap
From laggard to leader? Closing the euro area’s technology gap Read More »
Supply chains are vulnerable to disruptions. Julien Martin, Isabelle Mejean and Mathieu Parenti introduce a new measure of ‘relationship stickiness’ which quantifies these vulnerabilities
Relationship stickiness in international trade Read More »
