Visiting scholar Xavier Debrun, and Bruegel director Jean Pisani-Ferry contribute to the emerging discussion on reform strategies in the euro area. An earlier version of this note was presented to the Eurogroup Working Group of the Economic Policy Committee of the EU.

Jean Pisani-Ferry and André Sapir call for more focused guidelines in Lisbon 2, an explicit methodology for evaluating National Reform Programmes, and better ownership of these programmes to encourage national debate on key areas of underperformance in member states. This paper, prepared at the...

The reform of euro area governance has been chosen by the heads of state and government in the EU as a topic for immediate discussion and swift decisions. The European Council in Spring 2010 asked president Van Rompuy to chair a task force on euro area governance. The task force is due to...

The euro area's sovereign debt crisis continues though significant steps have been taken to resolve it. This paper proposes a comprehensive solution to the crisis based on three pillars: a plan to restore banking sector soundness in the whole euro area, a resolution of sovereign debt crisis...

Über einige Jahrzehnte wurden die deutschen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute mit unterschiedlichen wirtschaftspolitischen Ausrichtungen in Verbindung gebracht. Eine neue Studie untersucht diese Ausrichtungen anhand der Minderheitsvoten bei der Gemeinschaftsdiagnose von 1950 bis 2014.

In der zweiten Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels stand die mögliche Beschränkung von Bargeldzahlungen im Mittelpunkt. Eine Mehrheit der Umfrageteilnehmer spricht sich gegen eine Einschränkung von Bargeldzahlungen aus.

The response in 2008-09 to the global financial crisis was in many ways a high water mark for transatlantic policy coordination. The major economies of the EU and the US rapidly agreed on a series of measures to limit the crisis. However, the common approach has since unraveled. This paper...