Argentina’s experience of debt crisis
By Augusto Hasman and Maurizio Iacopetta There is still a lot of uncertainty around the possible paths that Greece can follow in the near feature. […]
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The spirit of the letter of the law … to avoid a “Graccident”
Raul Sampognaro and Xavier Timbeau The noose, in the words of Alexis Tsipras, is getting tighter and tighter around the Greek government. The last tranche […]
On the search to “recapture the industrial spirit of capitalism”: From patient shareholders to shared governance
By Jean-Luc Gaffard and Maurizio Iacopetta The government, buoyed by the law to recapture the real economy, the Florange act, which establishes the possibility of double […]
The United Kingdom on the eve of elections: The economy, David Cameron’s trump card (1/2)
By Catherine Mathieu In the countdown to the general elections on 7 May 2015, there is so much suspense that the bookmakers are putting the […]
Poverty and social exclusion in Europe: where are things at?
By Sandrine Levasseur In March 2010, the EU set itself the target for the year 2020 of reducing the number of people living below the […]
Who has the best playing field for tax competition: the United States or the European Union?
By Sarah Guillou Two recent events demonstrate the differences in the American and European views on tax competition. First was the case of Boeing, which […]
Flexibility versus the new fiscal effort – the last word has not been spoken
By Raul Sampognaro On 13 January, the Juncker Commission clarified its position on the flexibility that the Member States have in implementing the Stability and […]
Working in the United States: longer, harder, and …. on weekends!
By Elena Stancanelli, Paris School of Economics, CNRS and Research Associate at the OFCE[1] Americans now work longer hours than Europeans. Daniel Hamermesh and Elena […]
The Greek Sisyphus and its public debt: towards an end to the ordeal?
By Céline Antonin After its failure to elect a new President by a qualified majority vote, the Greek Parliament was dissolved, with early elections to […]
Rotation of voting on the ECB Governing Council: more than symbolic?
By Sandrine Levasseur Lithuania’s adoption of the euro on 1 January brought the number of euro zone members to nineteen, the threshold at which the […]