This documentation paper provides background information and basic descriptive statistics for a representative survey of the French, German, and Italian populations, focusing on attitudes towards and the demand for a digital euro conducted on our behalf by Dynata in November and December 2023....

Comparative political economy scholarship struggles to categorize Italy's model of capitalism between a mixed-market economy and a hybrid, stagnant economic system. To enhance our understanding of the Italian political economy, this paper employs the analytical framework of growth regimes to...

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft stagniert im Jahr 2024 und verharrt mit ihrer Wirtschaftsleis tung auf dem Stand des Jahres 2019. Der Außenhandel leidet unter geopolitischen Konflikten und der dadurch gedämpften Weltwirtschaft. Im Inland herrscht eine Investitionskrise und Kostenschocks haben die...

The sovereign debt crisis triggered a process of reforms in European economic governance that pushed for technocratic handling of budget decisions following standardized procedures, target measures, and indicators for fiscal monitoring. This shift, aimed at producing more stability and less...

Die SWP hat in ihrem Orientierungsrahmen für die Forschung 2024-2026 vier Themenlinien definiert, zu denen sie ihre Expertise bündelt. Diese Themenlinien betreffen politisch dringliche und grundlegende Fragen von großer inhaltlicher Komplexität: Autokratisierung als Herausforderung für die...

Although much research on migration has been carried out over the years, the focus of the attention has been mostly on immigration and its effects on the host countries and the economic drivers for choosing migration. Italian emigration abroad in post-World War II (1946-73) and in the 21st...

Die Europäische Union (EU) hat einen dringenden Bedarf an Seltenen Erden, insbesondere an raffinierten Produkten, die für die Produktion von Elektroautos, Turbinen und anderen technischen Anwendungen unerlässlich sind. Allerdings ist der Raffinierungsprozess nicht nur energieintensiv, sondern...

Economic development is the result of various factors operating in space and time. For some time now, economics has been looking more closely at the role played by institutions as a driving and propelling force behind economic development. More recently, the action carried out by intermediate...