Bilateral financial investments are not commonly available from a single source. Our database Finflows aims at centralising the information on bilateral capital financial stocks and financial flows in a single place. It provides estimates of external assets and liabilities flows between around...

This paper analyses key challenges for improving the European innovation ecosystem, notably the need to improve: (i) innovation performance to boost productivity growth, (ii) knowledge-intensive industrial activities, (iii) financing of highly innovative activities, (iv) the role of universities...

This paper analyses key challenges for improving the European innovation ecosystem, notably the need to improve: (i) innovation performance to boost productivity growth, (ii) knowledge-intensive industrial activities, (iii) financing of highly innovative activities, (iv) the role of universities...

We compute three possible measures based on the sensitivity of domestic European stock (sovereign bond) markets to global, US or European shocks. The common rationale is to measure the extent to which domestic stock (bond) market volatility incorporates external shocks, following the idea that...

Is web buzz able to lead stock behavior for a set of systemically important banks? Are stock movements sensitive to the geo-tagging of the web buzz? Between Dec. 2013 and April 2014, we scrape about 4000 world media websites retrieving all public information related to 10 systemically important...

The 2007-2013 EU Consumer Policy Strategy emphasizes the importance of a better understanding of how consumers behave and sets as a main objective "to empower EU consumers". A thorough knowledge of the capacities, information and assertiveness of consumers is considered crucial for being able to...

The 2007-2013 EU Consumer Policy Strategy emphasizes the importance of a better understanding of how consumers behave and sets as a main objective "to empower EU consumers". A thorough knowledge of the capacities, information and assertiveness of consumers is considered crucial for being able to...