Economic Policy
CEPS Staff involved
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Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)…
Professor Rym Ayadi is Professor at CASS Business School, Member of the Centre for Banking…
Harry Crichton-Miller is a Research Assistant in the Economic Policy unit at CEPS.
Daniel Gros is a Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for…
Alba Morón Cabrera is a transversal Project Officer working as part of the ERCC unit…
Eulalia Rubio is Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Economic Policy unity at CEPS. In…
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Originally Published: Project Syndicate, 7 January 2020 The 2010s were an exceptional decade that called for unprecedented economic policies. Now,…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) did not die on December 11, 2019, but an important part is now missing: disputes…
Inflation has remained below the ECB’s own target of ‘below, but close to 2%’ for a long time despite massive…
Originally Published: Project Syndicate, 7 October 2019 A recent report by the European Commission’s in-house think tank has called for…
Written by CEPS researchers Andreas Backhaus and Mikkel Barslund together with Augusta Nannerini of the Centre for European Policy Studies,…
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Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget
Empirical evidence, analysis and recommendations
Lessons learned from the implementation of crisis response tools at EU level
Part 2: Future challenges, parliamentary control and policy options
Analysis of developments in EU capital flows in the global context (2023)
Geo-economics and the risk of fragmentation
Lessons learned from the implementation of crisis response tools at EU level
Part 1: Assessing implementation and implications
Economic integration during an age of geopolitical instability
The EU's search for strategic autonomy
The cost of non-rurality
Preparing for a better urban-rural balance in EU funding
Analysis of developments in EU capital flows in the global context (2022)
Lingering uncertainty and the return of inflation
The tools for protecting the EU budget from breaches of the rule of law
The Conditionality Regulation in context
How can Early Childhood Education and Care policies empower citizens?
Recommendations for an effective EU agenda
The RRF role in strengthening active labour market policies and public employment services
Italy, Spain and Croatia
Job retention schemes between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 crises
Does the institutional design affect the take up? An EU-27 cross-country comparison
Related Projects
Here are the latest projects by this unit.
Structural reforms are changes that modify - in a lasting way - the structure of the economy and the institutional…
The European Council decision of December 2023 to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova and grant candidate status to…
In the EU context, performance budgeting has risen in prominence, both in the management and control of spending from the…
The European Parliament concluded a multiple framework service contract with CEPS for the provision of external expertise to support the…
The EU fiscal response to the pandemic has been significant. In the run-up to the negotiations on the next MFF,…
This project presents the analysis of the main trends and developments in global and EU capital movements observed until 2019…
The objective of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is to promote the Union’s economic, social and territorial cohesion. The…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been deep and wide. In spite of unprecedented efforts to understand the COVID-19…
Prediction and management of migration are a major challenge for the European Union and also for many different stakeholder groups…
The overarching purpose of this study is to investigate developments in upward convergence, between EU Member States and regions, for…
The scope of this evaluation is to assess to what extent: 1) The objectives of the economic adjustment programmes and…
RRRG is a research project backed by a high level group of experts (EU institutions, national governments and academics). It…
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…
The potential gains from further removal of barriers in the EU Single Market to the free movement of services is…
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…
FACTAGE aimed to generate and disseminate findings in response to the following questions: How do levels in (healthy) life expectancy…
The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) places an obligation on Member States to promote the availability to final customers of high-quality…
The study shall: - Identify the lacking elements in the architecture for the completion of Economic and Monetary Union that…
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…
In 2018, Greece exited from eight years of adjustment programmes. Three programmes totalling €288 billion of financial assistance were made…
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…
The European Parliament concluded a multiple framework service contract with CEPS for the provision of external expertise to support the…
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 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 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…
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…
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 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.…
Through scientific research, stakeholder engagement and dissemination, MoPAct advanced the knowledge base required in promoting the formulation and implementation of…
The aim of the study was to assess the legal and operational feasibility of introducing a European unemployment benefits scheme…
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…
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition…
The Master Economics of Globalisation and European Integration (EGEI) is a two-year (120 ECTS) program fully taught in English, aiming…
In March 2017, the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, effectively starting the process…
Cross-border movements of capital are a fundamental pillar of the EU single market, a condition to improve the efficient allocation…
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Almost three years ago, the European Commission launched a comprehensive and aspirational New Industrial Strategy for Europe that highlighted its…
On 10 March 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was really starting to hit Europe, the European Commission launched…
Faced with the prospect of a long-lasting and traumatic Covid-19 pandemic, we at CEPS decided to step up our efforts…
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…