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Diego Zuluaga // 05.10.2016 When the eurozone debt crisis broke out in late 2009, there was considerable agreement among policymakers that budgetary prudence and …
Diego Zuluaga // 21.09.2016 Economic debates are often presented as a contest between two opposing interest groups. Marxian socialism pitted capital against labour. …
Diego Zuluaga // 13.09.2016 Infrastructure investment is often presented by policymakers as a silver bullet in times of recession or sluggish growth. Public …
Diego Zuluaga // 06.09.2016
The European Commission has ordered Ireland to recover €13bn worth of allegedly unpaid taxes from Apple. Reception of the decision has been mixed, with …
7 September 2016 The European Commission has ordered Ireland to recover €13bn worth of allegedly unpaid taxes from Apple. Reception of the decision has …
Diego Zuluaga // 03.08.2016 The Wednesday Briefing is a weekly free-market commentary on topical economic issues by our Head of Research, Diego Zuluaga. …
3 August 2016 The European Union is all things to all people. To proponents on the right, it is a force for international cooperation, …
27 July 2016 A tax on turnover would tax profitable and loss-making firms equally, potentially posing an insurmountable hurdle to struggling firms, and eliminating …
06 July 2016 There are efforts at national, EU and international levels to put forward significant reforms to the corporate tax system. The 20th century …
Diego Zuluaga // 05.07.2016 This article is based on a presentation delivered at the Restructuring of the Global Economy (ROGE) conference, Oxford University. It …
29 June 2016 Can a country do better after leaving the EU? Indeed, we can perform an even more granular analysis and seek to …
Diego Zuluaga // 22.06.2016 Tomorrow, the British electorate will decide on a question which, more than any other, has divided voters and the political …
15 June 2016 The emergence of the sharing economy is rapidly changing the way in which goods and services are provided across the EU. …
08 June 2016 France badly needs economic reform. But we shouldn’t let negative news headlines blind us to the fact that the French economy …
Diego Zuluaga // 03.06.2016 An article from the IMF’s magazine, entitled ‘Neoliberalism: Oversold?’, has been making the rounds on social media. This is not …
01 June 2016 While entrepreneurship and innovation are flourishing across much of the EU’s private sector, public policy has lagged behind most recent technological …
25 May 2016 The new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD2) dramatically tightens regulation of cigarettes, rolling tobacco and e-cigarettes. Yet, it is unclear that it …
18 May 2016 As growth rates in the Eurozone gather steam, policymakers’ concerns are increasingly shifting to low inflation. According to Eurostat, consumer prices …
Diego Zuluaga // 18.05.2016 As growth rates in the Eurozone gather steam, policymakers’ concerns are increasingly shifting to low inflation. According to Eurostat, consumer …
Diego Zuluaga // 11.05.2016 To say that negotiations for an EU-U.S. trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), have lost momentum since …
4 May 2016 A law banning short-term apartment rentals just came into force in Berlin. The measure, which was passed in 2014 but only …
Diego Zuluaga // 28.04.2016 The Institute for International Finance has just released an interesting briefing paper on the trends in risk-weighted assets (RWA) among …
Diego Zuluaga // 18.04.2016 It is expected that the EU’s competition authorities will this week issue Google with a formal charge sheet, known as …
Diego Zuluaga // 30.03.2016 A blog post by the OECD linking the rise of finance to lower economic growth and higher inequality made the …
Diego Zuluaga // 23.03.2016 It is a cliché to observe that digital technology is changing the way we work and interact with each other. …
Diego Zuluaga // 17.03.2016 To conjecture what Hayek’s stance might have been on Britain’s EU referendum and the current state of the European project …
Istituto Bruno Leoni, 20 January 2016 The extent of market power enjoyed by Google is a debatable question. The antitrust literature emphasises the importance …
Diego Zuluaga // 18.01.2016 EurActiv reports this morning on a speech delivered by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager at the DLD conference in Munich on …
Diego Zuluaga // 21.12.2015 Today, EPICENTER releases its latest briefing, on the economics and regulation of online platforms. The prospect of regulatory intervention into …
Diego Zuluaga // 10.12 .2015 Earlier this week, I wrote about NYU Professor William Easterly’s notion of searchers vs. planners and how it is …
Diego Zuluaga // 08.12.2015 Last week in London, William Easterly delivered the Institute of Economic Affairs’ 24th Annual Hayek Lecture. Easterly, a Professor at …
Diego Zuluaga // 03.12.2015 In a response released yesterday, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) slammed measures proposed by Transport for London (TfL) …
Diego Zuluaga // 25.11.2015 The European Commission has released its plan for an EU-wide deposit insurance scheme that will, at first, back up and …
Diego Zuluaga // 23.11.2015 Those of you familiar with the 1983 cult classic Scarface by Brian de Palma will remember that it begins with …
Diego Zuluaga // 20.11.2015 The U.S. Treasury has announced measures to prevent American companies from merging with foreign firms and shifting their tax domicile …
EurActiv reports that the Italian Parliament is scheduled to vote on legislation which would regulate online platforms. The measure has been proposed by a …
Diego Zuluaga // 13.11.2015 In a new publication, my colleague Philip Booth at the Institute of Economic Affairs makes a resolute case for Britain …
Diego Zuluaga // 11.11.2015 Writing in the Financial Times (“In the long shadow of the Great Recession,” 10 November), Martin Wolf meditates on the …
Diego Zuluaga // 03.11.2015 In a post last week, I welcomed Competition and Markets Authority chief Alex Chisholm’s plea for regulatory prudence on online …
Diego Zuluaga // 27.10.2015 Let’s say it loud and clear: There is hope for EU competition policy! After months of negative headlines and high-profile …
Diego Zuluaga // 25.10.2015 Here in EPICENTER, our authors have consistently opposed the Commission’s proposal for a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base – better …
Diego Zuluaga // 22.10.2015 We found out yesterday that, according to the European Commission, the tax rulings entered into by Starbucks and Fiat with …
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