The shortfall in European investment
Sébastien Bock, Aya Elewa, Sarah Guillou, Mauro Napoletano, Lionel Nesta, Evens Salies, Tania Treibich Since Robert Solow’s early work, we have known that long-term economic […]
Investment
Why – and how – to make Next Generation EU (NGEU) sustainable
Frédéric Allemand, Jérôme Creel, Nicolas Leron, Sandrine Levasseur and Francesco Saraceno The Next Generation EU (NGEU) instrument was created during the pandemic to finance the recovery and, above all, to […]
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 […]
On French corporate immaterial investment
By Sarah Guillou A note on the immaterial singularity of business investment in France from 26 October 2018 highlighted the significant scale of investment in […]
The dilemmas of immaterial capitalism
By Sarah Guillou A review of: Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, Capitalism Without Capital. The Rise of the Intangible Economy, Princeton University Press, 2017, 288 pp. This […]
No love lost for Chinese investors!
By Sarah Guillou In his speech of 15 January 2017, France’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, speaks of “plundering investments”, suspecting Chinese […]
The Janus-Faced Nature of Debt
by Mattia Guerini, Alessio Moneta, Mauro Napoletano, Andrea Roventini The financial and economic crises of 2008 have been intimately interwined with the dynamics of debt. […]
Investment behaviour during the crisis: a comparative analysis of the main advanced economies
By Bruno Ducoudré, Mathieu Plane and Sébastien Villemot This text draws on the special study, Équations d’investissement : une comparaison internationale dans la crise [Investment equations : an international comparison […]