Germany on the slippery slope of the research tax credit
by Evens Salies and Sarah Guillou After years of hesitation, the German parliament has just introduced a tax scheme to promote investment in R&D. The […]
How to spend it: A proposal for a European Covid-19 recovery programme
Jérôme Creel, Mario Holzner, Francesco Saraceno, Andrew Watt and Jérôme Wittwer[1] The Recovery Fund recently proposed by the EU Commission marks a sea-change in European […]
The COVID-19 crisis and the US labour market: Rising inequality and precariousness in perspective
By Christophe Blot In the United States as in France, the COVID-19 crisis has led to numerous measures restricting economic activities intended to limit the […]
What can we learn from the Finnish experiment with a universal income?
By Guillaume Allègre Between 2017 and 2018, Finland conducted an experiment with universal income that gave rise to significant media coverage. 2,000 unemployed people receiving […]
It seems like it’s raining billions
Jérôme Creel, Xavier Ragot, and Francesco Saraceno The second meeting of the Eurogroup did the trick. The Ministers of Finance, after having once again laid out […]
Does the fall in the stock market risk amplifying the crisis?
By Christophe Blot and Paul Hubert The Covid-19 crisis will inevitably plunge the global economy into recession in 2020. The first available indicators – an […]
The Covid-19 passport and the risk of voluntary infection
By Gregory Verdugo Covid-19 has made it risky to have a job that cannot be done remotely and requires contact with the public. Given the […]
The essential, the useless and the harmful (part 3)
By Éloi Laurent Is humanity a pest? For the other beings of Nature who find it increasingly difficult to coexist with humans on the planet, […]
The essential, the useless and the harmful (part 2)
By Eloi Laurent How do we know what we can do without while continuing to live well? To clarify this sensitive issue, economic analysis offers […]
The essential, the useless and the harmful (part 1)
Éloi Laurent The Covid-19 crisis is still in its infancy, but it seems difficult to imagine that it will lead to a “return to normal” […]