EU banking unionEconomic recoveryGermany's choice
  • What a banking union means for Europe
    Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
    What a banking union means for Europe
  • Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
    Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 05 November 2012
    Economic recovery requires a better deal for labour
  • Germany's choice: Higher inflation or sovereign defaults
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 09 May 2012
    Germany's choice
  • Wij moeten de zwakke eurolanden helpen
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    NRC Handelsblad, 02 March 2009

    Twaalf maanden geleden leek het nog ondenkbaar dat een EU-lidstaat in een staatsschuldencrisis zou belanden. Toch behoort dit nu tot de mogelijkheden.
  • New Europe and the economic crisis
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 02 February 2009

    The EU's new member-states have been hit hard by the credit crunch and collapsing export markets. The Central and East Europeans sense that their post-Cold War growth model – consisting of liberalisation and EU integration – is broken.

  • Crisis shows imbalances are not sustainable indefinitely
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    Financial Times, 27 November 2008

    Sir, Paul Betts (“All for one, but none for all to revive Europe’s fortunes”, November 24) argues that Germany should wait for other countries to boost their economies (and hence demand for German exports) rather than taking steps to boost German domestic demand.
  • The Commission's economic forecasts are still too complacent
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 07 November 2008

    On the face of it, it appears churlish to accuse the Commission of complacency when it is forecasting no growth in the eurozone economy in 2009 and a deep recession in the UK.
  • Lessons from the financial crisis: A twin-track response
    Briefing note by Philip Whyte, 05 November 2008

    The credit crunch has unleashed widespread anger outside the financial sector. And rightly so. Not only have taxpayers had to bail out an industry that is uncommonly well rewarded. But the effects of the credit crunch on the real economy are likely to be painful and prolonged – not least on the jobs market.

  • Another Great Depression?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 15 October 2008

    Many observers have drawn parallels between the current economic crisis and the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, the stock market collapse of 1929 did not directly cause what turned out to be the deepest and most prolonged recession of modern times, ultimately ending in the Second World War.
  • Don't undermine free markets
    Opinion piece by Philip Whyte Simon Tilford
    International Herald Tribune, 08 October 2008

    Commentators and politicians have been falling over themselves to read the last rites to "Anglo-Saxon" capitalism. Anglo-Saxons have undoubtedly been guilty of profligacy and hubris.
  • Scapegoating the US lets others off too easily
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 02 October 2008

    Huge amounts have been said about the consequences of the credit crunch for the US and UK economies. They undoubtedly face major adjustments, and several years of very weak economic growth.