The cracks in China’s economy

Alvaro Martin // 16 December 2021

The Chinese real estate giant Evergrande has been a popular topic of conversation in recent weeks. It is not only the company’s liabilities of …

Towards a new fiscal policy

Álvaro Martín // 26 April 2021

In February, the Bank of Spain published its statistics on the Spanish public debt, indicating that state liabilities reached 117.08% of GDP at the …

Coronavirus and the economic value of human life

25 June 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has provided many grim examples of some familiar problems in health economics and cost-benefit analysis, and of the ‘tragic choices’ that …

Socially Useless? The Crucial Contribution of Finance to Economic Life

28 February 2018

Financial firms serve many useful functions which individuals and households could scarcely undertake on their own. These functions include maturity transformation, matching lenders and …

What would count as a ‘successful’ Brexit?

Ryan Bourne // 23 May 2017

How can we judge whether Brexit has been worth it by, say, 2020? That has been a question doing the rounds on Twitter.

Help! Keynes is back!

Nathalie Janson // 19.07.2016

Since early 2016, with the return of market turbulence and uncertainty over global growth, discreet calls for expansionary monetary …

The French State of Emergency

Greta Gietz // 28.01.2016
With the migrant crisis preoccupying Europe’s media and public debates, France’s “economic and social emergency” is easily forgotten.
France reported …

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