Blog
May 23, 2016
After several failed attempts since 2012, the “Nutella tax” appears to have been abandoned in France.
May 19, 2016
The Swedish gender equality discussion is characterized by a remarkable paradox. While Sweden, along with the other Nordic countries, tops the international index of gender equality, we perform abysmally in terms of female entrepreneurship and top managers.
May 18, 2016
As growth rates in the Eurozone gather steam, policymakers’ concerns are increasingly shifting to low inflation.
May 16, 2016
“When I turned 15, my parents gave me a copy of “The Road to Serfdom”. Some of the ideas in Hayek’s book came as a shock to me, and I contacted the editor, who eventually gave me the address of Hayek’s summer residence in Tirol. I knocked and he opened his door. We started discussing, and we never stopped, until his last years.”
May 11, 2016
To say that negotiations for an EU-U.S. trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), have lost momentum since they kicked off in the summer of 2013 is an understatement.
May 10, 2016
Over the past year, the shadow economy in Lithuania has decreased from 27% to 26% of the GDP. This is not surprising as, according to the same calculations, the shadow economy has been contracting for five consecutive years.
May 4, 2016
A law banning short-term apartment rentals just came into force in Berlin. The measure, which was passed in 2014 but only entered into force on 1 May, is aimed at releasing housing for Berliners.
May 3, 2016
When former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Socialist party (PSOE) took office in early 2008, they argued that Spain was not entering an economic crisis, in spite of the fact that all macroeconomic indicators pointed to the contrary.
April 28, 2016
The Institute for International Finance has just released an interesting briefing paper on the trends in risk-weighted assets (RWA) among major banks before and after the financial crisis.
