Finance

October 27, 2026

Has the ECB Learned from the Pandemic?

The European Central Bank says it has learned lessons from the pandemic. In this paper, Leonardas Marcinkevičius of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute tests that claim against euro area data on interest rates, the ECB balance sheet and money supply from 1999 to 2025.
December 10, 2025

EU Regulatory Observatory: The 28th Regime and Europe’s Competitiveness: Big Upside, Hard Delivery

This paper examines the European Commission’s proposal for an optional “28th Regime”, a single, EU-wide corporate framework intended to reduce regulatory fragmentation and strengthen Europe’s competitiveness.
June 26, 2025

Central Banks’ Dangerous Mission Creep

The more tasks the Federal Reserve takes on, the more difficult it will be to maintain its independence. Especially if, in addition to ‘exercising powers that belong to the Treasury Department’, the central bank deals with ‘social problems’ such as climate change or inclusion, to which there are various policy responses but no technical, neutral approach.
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