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Cold start for the green innovation machine

Aghion, Philippe; Veugelers, Reinhilde; Serre, Clément - 2009

This Policy Contribution accompanies the Policy Brief, 'No Green Growth Without Innovation'. Written by Senior Non-Resident Fellow Philippe Aghion, Senior Resident Fellow Reinhilde Veugelers and Researcher Clément Serre, this paper discusses the state of green innovation and goes into more...

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Weathering the storm. Fair-weather versus stormy-weather governance in the euro area

Pisani-Ferry, Jean; Sapir, André - 2009

Jean Pisani-Ferry and André Sapir believe that the euro has proved attractive as a fair-weather currency for countries and investors well beyond its borders. But it still remains to be seen if its governance is strong enough for it to succeed as a stormy-weather currency. The authors already...

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The threat of currency wars: a European perspective

Darvas, Zsolt; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2010

In this paper, original written for the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) of the European Parliament on 30 November as part of the series entitled 'The threat of currency wars: global imbalances and their effects on currencies', Bruegel Fellows Jean Pisani-Ferry and Zsolt Darvas...

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Can a less boring ECB remain accountable?

Pisani-Ferry, Jean; von Weizsäcker, Jakob - 2009

Affairs, Bruegel scholars contributed to the Committee's Monetary Dialogue with the European Central Bank meeting on 28 …

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EU cohesion policy. Some fundamental questions

Santos, Indhira - 2009

Indhira Santos analyses the impact of the European Union‘s cohesion policy both in terms of economic efficiency and redistribution to needy areas of the EU. She illustrates with data the confusion created by the multiple objectives of current EU cohesion policy and by the political...

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The monetary mechanics of the crisis

von Hagen, Jürgen - 2009

money. There are fears that this will lead to inflation, but it is base money (the central bank's liabilities) that has … supply process much less than the US and the UK. Therefore, the European Central Bank was right to respond to the crisis with … a less expansionary monetary policy than the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve. However, stabilising the money …

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Memo to the new commissioner for energy

Zachmann, Georg - 2009

In this paper Resident Scholar Georg Zachmann analyses the recent developments in European energy policy and looks at the upcoming challenges in this area making a number of recommendations to the newly appointed Energy Commissioner. Zachmann notes that while liberalising energy markets and...

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EU financial regulatory reform: a status report

Véron, Nicolas - 2010

In this paper, Nicolas Veron argues that the EU regulatory response to the crisis has been generally slower in the EU than in the United States, for four main reasons: swifter financial crisis management and resolution in the US; structural differences in legislative processes; the EU's...

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Policy-makers and the R&D-patent relationship

van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; de … - 2008

This policy contribution by Bruno von Pottelsberghe argues that the number of priority filings should be used as a patent-based measure of Europe's innovation performance. It also identifies several policies that may affect the R&D-patent relationship.

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IFRS sustainability requires further governance reform

Véron, Nicolas - 2009

This Policy Contribution reproduces the text of a letter sent by Senior Fellow Nicolas Véron to Gerrit Zalm, the Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF) in response to the Foundation's public consultation on Part 2 of its Constitution Review. Véron...

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