The economics of Brexit: A new eBook | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
What has Brexit meant for the UK economy? Six years on from the referendum, and over...
A green industrial revolution is coming | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Pressing social and environmental concerns are leading many to question the usefulness of economic growth. This...
Land speculation, booms, and busts with endogenous phase transitions | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Standard macro models with rational expectations struggle to explain the 2008 global crisis. This column provides...
Ukraine’s deepening population challenge | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
War lowers income by reducing the size of the population and reducing total factor productivity through...
Commercial policies and regulations now fragment the digital economy | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The last inventory of digital economy policies was published in 2018. Since then, officials have gone...
Fiscal policy staying the course in troubled times | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The war in Ukraine has clouded the near-term economic outlook. However, the European Fiscal Board concludes that current...
State ownership and corporate leverage | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Political economy is an important source of distortions in financial markets. For example, state ownership may...
Crypto currencies and digital money: Taking stock | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The crash in crypto currency valuations may trigger a radical reassessment. But, just as excessive hype...
Social pressure in football matches | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Our behaviours are highly influenced by social pressure. This column takes as a natural experiment the...
Bitcoin isn’t much of a macro hedge | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Bitcoin is often sold as protection against adverse macroeconomic outcomes. This column argues that this depiction...
Inflation and Europe’s public finances | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: What are the consequences of an extended period of...
Real-time food price inflation in Germany | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Unprecedented events, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, have boosted the demand...
The logic behind Australia’s news media bargaining code | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Australia’s news media bargaining code has been successful in achieving the single objective set for it: to...
Dale Jorgenson: Investment, growth accounting, and economic measurement | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Dale Jorgenson, who passed away in June 2022, was a central contributor to a wide range...
Temporary work contracts and female labour market outcomes | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Little is known about the effects of being a temporary contract holder on young workers’ subsequent...
Spending effects of fiscal transfers in a pandemic | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Similar to many other government policies around the world, Germany's fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic...
The Economics of Brexit | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The latest CEPR ebook investigates the impact of Brexit so far on the economies of the...
The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned? | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
This eBook, produced by VoxEU/CEPR and UK in a Changing Europe, brings together leading academic researchers on...
The consequences of war for the EU | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022. What are the long-term consequences of the conflict in...
Past and present inflation are more similar than you think | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Housing inflation in the US before 1983 was measured in a way that made the Consumer...
The short-term impact of war on economic activity in Ukraine | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The war in Ukraine has severely limited the ability to gather statistical information and assess the...
Banks and their interest rate risk sensitivity | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Interest rate risks on banks’ balance sheets represent a relevant financial stability concern with a view to...
The ability gradient in tax responsiveness | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
How does people’s ability influence their taxpaying behavior? This column links administrative tax and military enlistment...
Technology and local state capacity | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Studies show that investing in a government’s capacity to collect tax revenues is beneficial for economic...
The role for monetary policy in the green transition | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Central banks are increasingly being called upon to engage in climate change issues, not only in...
Why climate change is relevant for monetary policy | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
While the implications of climate change for financial stability and prudential supervision are widely recognised, those...
Socially responsible divestment | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Responsible investing has become an increasingly popular practice, with the blanket exclusion of ‘brown’ industries –...
Searching for ‘optimal’ sanctions on Russia | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Import tariffs on Russian exports are an important tool available to the international coalition of sanctioning...
Piketty on equality | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: Thomas Piketty’s short new book promises A brief history...
Combating climate change: The role of female managers | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Given the scale of climate risks, achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 represents an urgent priority. This column...
Patent publication and innovation | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Patents seek to trade off the benefits to the inventor of exclusivity with the social benefits...
Women in early modern academia: A Catholic phenomenon | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Academia has seen remarkable progress in gender equality over the last 50 years, but has yet...
Revisiting the anticompetitive effects of common ownership | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The rise of common ownership of publicly traded companies has important implications for competition in product...
Insights on distributive politics from a new way to measure aridity | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Economic studies of drought episodes typically use rainfall as a proxy for water scarcity, yet this...
The sobering story of the website that attempted to bring unemployment down | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
A large literature documents the positive effects of experiments aiming to alleviate the informational and behavioural...
Western sanctions on Russia are working, an energy embargo now is a costly distraction | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The path to an EU embargo on Russian energy has now been agreed, but with an...
For climate economics, preferences can and should be treated as endogenous | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
In economic analysis, preferences are usually assumed to be fixed. This column analyses the impacts of...
The foster care-to-prison pipeline | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
There is a well-documented correlation between foster care and crime, but little evidence on the long-term...
How demand shocks propagate through an input-output network | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Previous studies report the propagation of shocks via supply chains from downstream, but little is known...
A new era in the economics of fertility | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
As fertility rates have declined in high-income countries, the cross-country relationship between women’s labour supply and...
Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Learning-by-doing is believed to be a major source of economic growth, human capital, and comparative advantage,...
Male and female voices in economics | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
We know women are under-represented in economics. But if male economists are more comfortable expressing a...
Restarting Ukraine’s agricultural exports | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Russia has imposed a naval blockade on Ukraine, suffocating the country’s agricultural exports. The last time...
The fear of technology-driven unemployment and its empirical base | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
New technologies may replace human labour, but can simultaneously create jobs if workers are needed to...
Central banks, climate change, and economic efficiency | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Market imperfections strongly influence the volume of greenhouse gas emissions, which is a key driver of...
Fostering soft skills in active labour market programmes | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Active labour market programmes typically target hard skills, yet soft skills are also important determinants of...
Global supply chains rattled by winds of war | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions imposed on Russia are adding strains to...
Prospects for UK economic growth | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The May 2022 CfM survey asked the members of its UK panel to forecast the prospects...
Financial stability at the ‘climate Minsky point’ | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Central banks have begun integrating climate-related risks into their financial stability assessments, but estimating risks to...
The Sound and the Fury in Ukraine | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
The war in Ukraine is having immediate and stark humanitarian and economic impacts, yet its long-term...