Blog

November 10, 2016
Posting of workers plays an essential role in the internal market of the European Union.
November 1, 2016
Repeat after me: tariffs primarily hurt domestic consumers – not foreign exporters. Tariffs primarily hurt the consumers of the country imposing them on imported goods.
October 27, 2016
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a prospective trade deal between Canada and the EU, came to a screeching halt in the last second before the EU-Canada summit that was proposed for today.
October 5, 2016
When the eurozone debt crisis broke out in late 2009, there was considerable agreement among policymakers that budgetary prudence and structural reform must be at the heart of the crisis response.
September 21, 2016
Economic debates are often presented as a contest between two opposing interest groups. Marxian socialism pitted capital against labour.
September 13, 2016
Infrastructure investment is often presented by policymakers as a silver bullet in times of recession or sluggish growth.
August 23, 2016
The sharing, or collaborative, economy is a rapidly rising business model which enables exchanges of goods and services through online marketplaces.
August 3, 2016
The European Union is all things to all people.
July 5, 2016
It is a pleasure to address this conference on the Restructuring of the Global Economy. It is a timely and important topic indeed.