Economic Policy
CEPS Staff involved
Next is the list of our inhouse experts working in this unit.
Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Director of Research, Head of the Economic Policy Unit at the…
Professor Rym Ayadi is Professor at CASS Business School, Member of the Centre for Banking…
Mikkel Barslund is the Head of the Ageing Societies Programme within the Economic Policy Unit.…
Mattia Di Salvo is a Researcher in the Economic Policy Unit with expertise in migration…
Veselina assists the Director of CEPS and coordinates projects and events for the Economic Policy…
Daniel Gros is a Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for…
Jorge Núñez Ferrer is a Senior Research Fellow at CEPS. He specialises in public finance,…
Basak Van Hove is a Project Officer at CEPS. She has been an expert in…
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread concern about debt unsustainability in both developed and emerging economies. To address this challenge,…
The Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery response to the Covid-19 crisis, one of the most ambitious EU integration projects so…
The recent fall in both headline and core inflation in the euro area has increased pressure on the European Central…
Is it possible to accelerate public investment without increasing national taxes or public debt? The authors of this piece believe…
The EU has been struggling to integrate its capital markets for decades. Despite the broad public support shown for a…
Germany sold its first-ever federal green bond in early September. Analysts and commentators alike have displayed an elevated degree of…
Among the long list of difficult issues that must be solved before agreement on any new recovery fund is that…
Originally Published: Project Syndicate, 7 July 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the European Union is much more than…
Short time-work (STW) schemes have proved to be the ace card in member states’ response to the social and employment…
The Franco-German agreement to support those hardest hit by the current crisis with a €500 billion fund to be financed…
EU leaders are negotiating the modalities of a sizeable recovery facility. Under EU law, this is doable, within certain limits.…
Related Publications
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Paving the way for future labour migration
A Belgian-Tunisian Skills Mobility Partnership
Policies for an Ageing Workforce
Work-life balance, working conditions and equal opportunities
Rethinking EU migration and asylum policies
Managing immigration jointly with countries of origin and transit
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
The European Parliament concluded a multiple framework service contract with CEPS for the provision of external expertise to support the…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been deep and wide. In spite of unprecedented efforts to understand the COVID-19…
The Gender Pension Gap (henceforth GPG) is measured as one minus the ratio of the average pensions of women and…
The current European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) can soon look back at 13 years of excellent advice…
All advanced economies are experiencing population ageing - characterized by a low fertility rate and a steady increase in life…
Following the Financial Regulation (EU) No 2018/1046 the European Commission has set up a database with information of the recipients…
The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) places an obligation on Member States to promote the availability to final customers of high-quality…
The 2007/08 financial crisis demonstrated the significant lack of adequate tools at the Union and national levels for dealing effectively…
The Directorate general for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) has commissioned Centre for European Policy…
The study examines the current methodologies used for tracking climate-related and biodiversity-related expenditure in the EU budget. It identifies strengths…
DG FISMA has commissioned a consortium led by the CEPS to conduct a Feasibility study on the creation of a…
FACTAGE aims to generate and disseminate findings in response to the following questions:How do levels in (healthy) life expectancy differ…
The Mercator Dialogue on Migration and Asylum (MEDAM) is three-year research and consultation project that aims to identify and close…
The project was coordinated by GEOPA-COPA ( Employers’ Group of Professional Agricultural Organisations in the European Union) with the support…
The ECB will not be able to achieve its inflation target over the foreseeable future. Further expansionary measures will have…
The Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee ordered a Briefing Paper to CEPS on "Task Ahead: Review of the ECB's…
The purpose of the study is to assess how national options and discretions under the DGSD are implemented in practice,…
This study consists of a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the application of the super simplified reporting regime for micro…
The purpose of this grant (ENGAGE project II) is to continue facilitating the participation of representatives from NGOs, Civil Society…
There is an emerging change in the role of education and skills in working lives and career trajectories. Increasingly, the…
The first 20 years of the euro were very different from what had been anticipated. Deflation, rather than inflation became…
The absence of a single fiscal policy in the euro area does not necessarily constitute a problem for the ECB.…
The Study starts from the 2015 ESPAS Global Trends Report, which identified five global economic and social trends to 2030,…
The IPEPS project aims at complementing degree-level programmes led by Universities by enriching the background knowledge that students acquire in…
Collateral constitutes an indispensable lubricant for the financial system. Government bonds constitute the most important source of collateral, for use…
The EU seeks to build a comprehensive immigration policy in which legally residing non-EU nationals, referred to as third-country nationals…
The project provided new tools for fiscal policy design by incorporating the new EU fiscal rules regarding, e.g. government debt…
The huge literature on the causes of the persistent weakness in inflation in the euro area has not identified one…
This report presents the assessment of the impacts of a potential EU measure on cash payment restrictions (either a prohibition…
The Study aims to provide the necessary clarity by carrying out an in-depth assessment of the EUTFs and the FRT,…
The imbalances within the Eurosystem’s Target 2 payment system are an indication that financial markets are not fully integrated. However,…
The statutes of the European Central Bank (ECB) stipulate that it should have recourse to national central banks (NCBs) to…
The EU budget imposes a considerable number of conditionalities on the Member States in use of the EU budget, and…
This was a briefing commissioned by European Parliament, DG Internal Policies of the Union through a Negotiated Procedure No IP/D/CONT/IC/2017-038.…
The unconventional measures of the ECB are likely to have negative side effects the longer they are in operation. But…
Through scientific research, stakeholder engagement and dissemination, MoPAct advanced the knowledge base required in promoting the formulation and implementation of…
The impact of low(er) interest rates on bank profits is a priori ambiguous. It depends on the business model of…
The importance of monetary policy for the present ultra-low interest rates is often over-estimated. As emphasised by the ECB President…
The aim of the study was to assess the legal and operational feasibility of introducing a European unemployment benefits scheme…
The massive sovereign bond-buying programme(s) that started in early 2015 should now be bearing fruit, but there is little sign…
Skills, labour mobility and Information technology (IT) all rank high on the European policy agenda and feature among the key…
CEPS was commissioned to write a study on labour mobility for the Dutch Presidency. Specifically the study assessed the situation…
There does not seem to be any major technical hurdles to a moderate expansion of the bond purchase programme of…
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition…
Financial innovation seems to have had little impact on the oldest medium of transaction, namely cash. The ratio of currency…
Non-standard policy measures are intended to work via financial markets. Their effectiveness thus depends on how ECB communication affects the…
In March 2017, the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, effectively starting the process…
Related Task Forces
Here are the latest task forces organised by this unit.
CEPS is launching a new and ambitious Task Force on EU Industrial Policy after the pandemic. Register your interest here.…
The overall level of education and more precisely the skills, abilities and creativity of European citizens constitute a key determinant…
Not at any time in the history of the European Community have labour markets diverged to the extent they do…
The economic crisis has exposed the weaknesses of the European economies and emphasised the needs to boost competitiveness of the…
Creating a global economy that emits a fraction of its current greenhouse gas emissions will not only require wholesale changes…
Adaptation and mitigation for climate change are a global responsibility and the EU has to develop a common strategy to…
Last September, following developing countries rejections of proposals at Cancún Mexico, the Doha Development Round of WTO negotiations looked to…
CEPS Task Force Report: The EU Budget: The UK Rebate and the CAP – Phasing them both out? Author: Jorge…
CEPS Task Force Report: The DOHA Round of WTO Negotiations: Practical Proposals towards Enhancing the Global Trading System and Fostering…
CEPS Task Force Report: The Future of the WTO and the New Trade Round Author: Paul Brenton The world trading…