Bruegel is a European think tank devoted to international economics. It was created in Brussels in early 2005 with the intention of bringing a new voice into Europe’s economic policy discussions.
What’s at stake: There has been a plethora of stories on the apparent decline in trading or market liquidity over the past few months with a growing number of analysts pointing out that it has become harder for buyers and sellers to transact without causing sharp price movements. While the Fed (...)
Tras semanas de negociaciones con la Comisión Europea y el Consejo, el parlamento europeo adoptó el 24 de junio el texto que establece el Fondo Europeo para Inversiones Estratégicas (FEIE), instrumento neurálgico del plan de inversiones del presidente de la Comisión.
El objetivo del plan (abordar (...)
The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has had enough. Greece, he says, cannot receive debt relief from European creditors because European official creditors are forbidden by European treaties to grant relief. But this cannot be true. Once a loan has been made, any lender exposes himself (...)
Perhaps the greatest damage caused by the confrontation with Greece is a general loss of confidence. If we want to get Greece back to growth, people, companies and investors have to regain confidence in the viability of the country. For this to work, a legitimate and competent government as (...)
In the recently announced Delhi government budget, the newly elected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)—the self-styled representative of the common man—has increased by 50 percent the funds allocated to education, raising the proposed outlay for the coming year to ₹98 billion.
But money has not held up (...)
Everybody seems to be greedily eyeing potential business deals with Iran after the nuclear deal reached with six world powers. This is no surprise. Iran’s economy is larger than Australia’s and twice as large as Iran’s successful neighbour, the UAE. More importantly, Iran is set to grow even (...)
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Mobile telecommunications markets are an important part of the European Commission’s strategy for the completion of the European Union Digital Single. The use of mobile telecommunications – particularly mobile data access – is growingand becoming an increasingly important input for (...)
On the 17th July, the Italian authorities began the liquidation of Banca Romagna Cooperativa (BRC), a small Italian mutual bank that had been in trouble since 2013. In the BRC resolution process, equity and junior debt have been bailed in. The case has passed largely unnoticed abroad, but this (...)
Greece has an imperfect track-record of structural reform implementation. However, the poor growth outcome of the Greek programmes is also a consequence of the timing and composition of reforms, which were not optimally geared towards a speedy transition to a new growth model based on the (...)
Der wohl größte Schaden der Konfrontation mit Griechenland ist ein allgemeiner Vertrauensverlust. Damit Griechenland wieder wachsen kann, müssen die Menschen, Unternehmen und Investoren wieder Vertrauen in die Zukunftsfähigkeit des Landes fassen. Hierzu bedarf es natürlich einerseits einer legitimen (...)
Par Jacques Mistral
Le président de la République a récemment souligné qu'un succès de la négociation climatique qui se déroulera à Paris en fin d'année (la COP21) serait un succès pour les perspectives de croissance, son échec, un échec pour la croissance. Cette identification entre deux objectifs (...)
Prélèvement à la source, vers une occasion manquée ?
Confirmation mais pour quoi faire ? François Hollande l'a récemment confirmé dans un entretien au journal Sud-Ouest : le prélèvement à la source de l'impôt sur le revenu sera engagé dès 2016 pour être pleinement appliqué en 2018. Une réforme attendue (...)
Il faut modifier le droit de licenciement.
Avancées marginales. La loi Macron revient à l'Assemblée nationale dans une version revisitée. Après les récentes annonces du Premier ministre Manuel Valls en faveur des PME et ETI, le ministre de l'Economie a déposé cette semaine des amendements à son projet (...)
Par Hippolyte d'Albis
En regardant la télévision le soir, on s'émeut et s'indigne du massacre des populations des pays en guerre. Pourtant, lorsque l'Union européenne propose à la France d'accueillir au cours des deux années à venir 9.127 réfugiés ou demandeurs d'asile en provenance de Syrie et (...)
France et reprise économique, le désamour
Reprise absente, et pour cause. Les derniers chiffres du chômage communiqués pour le mois d'avril le prouvent : avec plus de 5 millions de demandeurs d'emplois – incluant ceux qui ont un petit boulot –, la France n'a pas encore pris le train de la reprise (...)
Areva EDF, la nouvelle aventure industrielle
Clarification. La décision de l'Etat de placer sous l'égide d'EDF une grande partie de l'activité réacteurs nucléaires d'Areva n'est qu'une première étape du sauvetage du groupe. Cette option permet-elle de donner une stabilité et une pérennité à la (...)
Par Valérie Mignon, le 3 juin 2015 Les cours du brut ont de nouveau atteint un point bas courant mai. En parallèle, le dollar poursuit sa progression à la hausse. Cette évolution en sens contraire est-elle atypique ? Par Valérie Mignon, le 3 juin 2015 Les cours du brut ont de nouveau atteint un (...)
Flexibiliser le marché du travail pour lutter contre le chômage
Constat. Les chiffres du chômage pour avril communiqués lundi 1er juin sont, de nouveau, catastrophiques. Malgré les signes de reprise, Pôle emploi compte désormais 3 millions et demi de chômeurs sans activité, 5,3 millions en incluant (...)
Pourquoi le climat va changer le capitalisme
le 28 mai 2015
Mobilisation. Plus de 250 entreprises du monde entier viennent de se réunir au siège de l'Unesco à Paris pour préparer la "COP 21", la grande conférence climatique qui se tiendra en France entre fin novembre et début décembre 2015. La (...)
Pourquoi le climat va changer le capitalisme
le 28 mai 2015
Mobilisation. Plus de 250 entreprises du monde entier viennent de se réunir au siège de l'Unesco à Paris pour préparer la "COP 21", la grande conférence climatique qui se tiendra en France entre fin novembre et début décembre 2015. La (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 30, 2019 CONTACT: Ariela Weinberger, (610) 716-2978, aweinberger@rooseveltinstitute.org Roosevelt Institute Releases Statement re: Steinbaum’s Twitter Account Vitriol on Twitter is not new. The last few weeks, however, have been especially contentious for those of (...)
Voters across the political spectrum want policymakers to enact anti-corruption legislation, and Democrats responded by making corruption a signature issue in the 2018 election. This month, they followed through on that promise by introducing the For the People Act, an ethics and government (...)
The United States has a labor monopsony problem. Though legal tools are already in place to combat monopsony, they have only been used against the most obvious forms of anticompetitive conduct like no-poaching agreements. More generally, there has been virtually no enforcement against abuses of (...)
With outstanding student debt at $1.5 trillion, policymakers and education providers are looking for ways to make college more affordable. Though many argue for enhanced public investment to reduce tuition, others are turning to debt alternatives like income share agreements (ISAs). Through (...)
Join us for an insider’s view of how Congress can conduct effective oversight investigations. The Roosevelt Institute and Demos are pleased to welcome Elise Bean, a 30-year Senate investigator and author of Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse, to take (...)
We’re accepting applications for a new Alumni Committee! Instituted in 2014, the mission of the Alumni Committee is to expand resources for Network alumni programming; collaborate with staff on alumni programming and hold the Network accountable to its founding mission. The Alumni Committee will (...)
At its December meeting, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate a quarter point. The move, while widely expected, represented a clear rebuke to President Trump, who has repeatedly urged the Fed to keep rates low. He took to Twitter after the move to attack Fed head Jerome Powell (...)
In partnership with the Economic Policy Institute, Roosevelt Research Associate Adil Abdela and Research Director and Fellow Marshall Steinbaum examine the impact of the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile merger on the labor market. Cutting the number of national players in the U.S. wireless industry (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 13, 2018 CONTACT: Mariam Ahmed, (202) 800-8688, mariam.ahmed@berlinrosen.com STATEMENT: Roosevelt Institute Experts Respond to Companion Bill to Strengthen Workers’ Voices Today, Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) introduced the Accountable Capitalism Act in the U.S. House (...)
During a time when Facebook is being used as a tool of genocide and ethnic cleansing, Amazon is striking deals with Apple to put iPhone refurbishers out of business, and Google is manipulating search results to promote its own products, it is still difficult to find a group of experts willing (...)