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Good news from Cyprus: Q2 contraction only 1.4 percent 23 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
There was a great news in the Eurostat release of the GDP flash estimate for the second quarter of 2013, which was not much highlighted: the Cypriot economy contracted by only 1.4 percent, less than i...
Changing European mindsets: from finding to creating jobs 23 Aug 2013 | 02:02 pm
Bruegel Director Guntram Wolf and Visiting Fellow Karen Wilson discuss what is needed on the individual, business and government level to spur job creation and entrepreneurship, especially in Europe.
Yields on the rise 21 Aug 2013 | 11:58 am
US government bond yields have increased recently, mainly due to the talks about tapering the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE) programme. This has prompted yield increases in a number of oth...
Euro area adjustment in a low inflation environment 20 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
Inflation in the euro area remains low. Eurostat’s most recent figures show that inflation in the monetary union remained unchanged at 1.6 % in July compared to the same month a year ago. This post an...
Blogs review: The intellectual legacy of Milton Friedman 20 Aug 2013 | 11:51 am
What’s at stake: What started as a series of post by David Glasner on the legacy of Milton Friedman turned into a major dispute after Paul Krugman wrote that “historians of economic thought will regar...
The Fall of the Celtic Tiger 19 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
By 2000, Ireland had achieved a remarkable macroeconomic performance: 10% economic growth annually, a budget surplus, and a very low debt to GDP ratio. Emigration had disappeared and there was signifi...
Greek exposure to Cyprus: the unintended consequences of restructuring 13 Aug 2013 | 01:20 pm
Europe failed to properly address the consequences of the Greek debt restructuring. The crisis came back with a vengeance when the Cypriot crisis eventually came to the fore
Blogs review: The renationalization of European finance 13 Aug 2013 | 12:51 pm
What’s at stake: The financial crisis brought the era of rapid financial globalization to a halt. While qualitatively similar than for the rest of the world, this retrenchment has been quantitatively ...
Recent real effective exchange rate movements (summer 2013 database update) 12 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
We have updated the monthly database up to July 2013, which is downloadable form the website of the working paper.
The euro area needs a German miracle 12 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
Recent sentiment indicators of the euro area are encouraging but return to lasting health of the euro area economy will still require major further steps. Those include structural reforms in the euro ...
