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What should public spending look like?

Here’s what’s clear: public spending is on the rise. Public expenditure ratios have quadrupled since 1870, and increased even more in the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Is that good or bad? What does responsible public spendi...

14th July 2021 by Guntram Wolff 51 views

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# Publications

The great COVID-19 divergence: managing a sustainable and equitable recovery in the European Union

I presented this paper at the informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) meeting in Lisbon on 21-22 May 2021. It was covered by the FT and other papers. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the biggest global r...

24th May 2021 by GRÉGORY CLAEYS, ZSOLT DARVAS, MARIA DEMERTZIS AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 231 views

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# Blog

Europe has an artificial-intelligence skills shortage

This blog post was first published by www.bruegel.org However intelligent artificial intelligence might be, it still relies on qualified humans, of which there is a notable lack in the European Union. In 2019, German fir...

31st August 2020 by JULIA ANDERSON, PACO VIRY, GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 1066 views

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Will COVID-19 boost the euro as a global currency?

The euro is, by definition an international currency. However, since being established in the late 90s the single currency has always been somewhat less than the sum of it’s parts and has yet to challenge the US do...

5th June 2020 by Guntram Wolff 821 views

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# Publications

Rebooting Europe: a framework for a post COVID-19 economic recovery

COVID-19 has triggered a severe recession and policymakers in European Union countries are providing generous, largely indiscriminate, support to companies. As the recession gets deeper, a more comprehensive strategy is ...

15th May 2020 by Julia Anderson, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff 657 views

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What drives national implementation of EU policy recommendations?

We use a newly-compiled dataset to investigate whether and why European Union countries implement the economic policy recommendations they receive from the EU. We find that implementation rates are modest and have worsen...

25th April 2019 by KONSTANTINOS EFSTATHIOU AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 1305 views

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# Publications

Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and convergence in the European Union

This Policy Contribution was written for the Informal ECOFIN Meeting, Bucharest, 5 April 2019. The authors look at the EU’s economic agenda, discussing the priorities for the next five years. It can be downloaded HERE. M...

5th April 2019 by Maria Demertzis, André Sapir, Guntram Wolff 1741 views

# podcast

How to make Industry 4.0 work for Europe

I discusses Industry 4.0 with Harvard University Berkman Klein fellow Padmashree Gehl Sampath....

2nd April 2019 by Guntram Wolff 899 views

# Blog

Making Italy grow again

This opinion piece was published in Corriere Della Sera and Bruegel. The coalition agreement signed in May between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League foresees new large spending items – most notably the flat tax...

26th June 2018 by Simone Tagliapietra, Alessio Terzi, Guntram B Wolff 1373 views

# Blog

A Jamaican Germany could be good for Europe

A shortened version of this opinion piece has been published by the Financial Times. Germany has voted – and the result has been a shock to Germans and to Europe. The AfD – an extremely right wing, and in part neo-nazi, ...

29th September 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1702 views