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The Week That Was in Europe — 100 episodes

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Economic Consequences of Europe’s New Geopolitical Situation, with Moritz Schularick

2

Is Germany’s Industrial Slowdown About to Spiral?

3

Tariffs - What Do They Achieve?

4

Review of the ECB Meeting - January 2025

5

Getting Germany Back on Track - with Clemens Fuest (Ifo Institute)

6

The Role of Innovation for Society, with Prof. Dan Breznitz

7

Global Value Chains Under Pressure: What Future for Them? With Gabriel Felbermayr

8

Outlook on the Political Future in France, with Hadrien Camatte (Natixis)

9

The Political Transition in Germany: Economic Challenges

10

Will Euro Area Inflation Fall Below the ECB's Target?

11

Fiscal Consolidation in Europe: How to Achieve It? With Roel Beetsma (University of Amsterdam)

12

The Future of Europe's Auto Industry, with Valentin Mory (Natixis)

13

Europe's Growth and Productivity Slowdown Since 2009

14

New Insights into the Gains from International Trade, with Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)

15

Review of the ECB Meeting - September 2024

16

Germany's Economy: Stuck in Post-Pandemic Limbo?

17

The French Elections Unpacked, with Hadrien Camatte (Natixis)

18

The Impact of AI on Finance & Central Banks, with Hyun Shin (BIS)

19

Euro Area Inflation Expectations, with Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics)

20

The Return of the State in International Lending, with Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute)

21

Decoding the European Election Results, with Sophia Russack (CEPS)

22

Review of the ECB Meeting: June 2024

23

Europe's Single Market Under Stress – with Roman Arjona (European Commission)

24

The ECB Rate Outlook for June & Beyond

25

Fiscal Policy Challenges in Germany - with Thiess Buettner

26

Risks of a High Debt and High Interest Rate World - with Vitor Gaspar (IMF)

27

The Neutral Interest Rate: A Moving Target

28

Dark Clouds Over Euro Area Fiscal Policy

29

Review of the ECB Meeting: April 2024

30

The EU’s Disastrous Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), with Harald Fadinger

31

Overcoming Weak Growth in Germany, with Veronika Grimm

32

Review of the ECB Meeting: March 2024

33

Productivity Developments in France, with Alain Durré (France Stratégie)

34

How Much of the Decline in Inflation Is Due to ECB Policy?

35

Optimal Government Debt Dynamics: Lessons from the Literature

36

Critical Minerals for Europe: A Conversation With Bernard Dahdah

37

Macroeconomic Forecasting at the ECB, with Oscar Arce (Director General Economics)

38

Review of the ECB Meeting: January 2024

39

Is Germany the Sick Man of Europe?

40

Review of the ECB Meeting: December 2023

41

How Should Monetary Policy Deal With Uncertainty?

42

German Fiscal Policy after the Constitutional Court Ruling, with Lars Feld

43

The Eerie Strength of the Euro Area Labor Market

44

The Reform of the European Electricity Market, with Andreas Loeschel

45

Technology Transfer to China: Forced or Incentivized?

46

Review of the ECB Meeting: October 2023

47

Europe in Search of a Geopolitical Strategy, with Guntram Wolff

48

Reform of Central Bank Liquidity Provision, with Tobias Linzert (ECB)

49

What’s Behind the Sell-Off in Euro Area Bond Markets?

50

The Effects of Industrial Policy: What Do We Know? With Nathan Lane (Oxford University)

51

Artifical Intelligence & the Future of Work, with Carl Benedikt Frey (Oxford University)

52

Review of the September 2023 ECB Meeting

53

The Darkening Euro Area Growth Outlook

54

The Reform of Fiscal Rules in Europe, with Olivier Blanchard

55

Should the ECB Raise Its Inflation Target?

56

The Inequality Effects of Foreign Trade, with David Dorn (University of Zurich)

57

Review of the June 2023 ECB Meeting

58

HANK: A New Class of Monetary Models for Policy Analysis, with Ben Moll (LSE)

59

Robert Lucas: Contributions to Economics, with Juan Pablo Nicolini

60

What’s Wrong with Manufacturing in Europe?

61

Distributional Implications of Monetary Policy, with Maarten Dossche (ECB)

62

Review of the May 2023 ECB Meeting

63

Money Growth and Its Implications for Output and Inflation

64

Liquidity Management at Banks, with Olivier Hubert (Groupe BPCE)

65

Euro Area Growth Risk From Banking Sector Tensions?

66

Taking Stock of European Banking Supervision, with Ignazio Angeloni

67

Review of the March 2023 ECB Meeting

68

The Future of World Trade, with Prof. Harald Fadinger

69

The EU Commission Proposal on Fiscal Rules

70

The Outlook for the Euro Area Construction Sector

71

The State of the Italian Economy, with Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi)

72

Skills, Schools and Economic Growth, with Prof. Ludger Wößmann

73

Review of the ECB Meeting (Feb 2023)

74

How Much ECB Tightening is Needed to Get Inflation Under Control?

75

What Explains the Resilience of the Euro Area Economy?

76

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act: Implications for Europe

77

Review of the Dec 2022 ECB Meeting

78

Conversation with Chief Economist Agnès Benassy-Quéré (French Treasury)

79

The EU-China Relationship: Perspectives from Hong-Kong, with Alicia Garcia Herrero

80

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level: An Explainer

81

The Consequences of Central Bank Losses, with Ulrich Bindseil (ECB)

82

Review of this Week's ECB Meeting (Oct 2022)

83

Cost Effective Ways to Achieve the Green Transition, with Prof. Stefan Reichelstein

84

Fiscal #Sustainability in #Europe: Is R < G?

85

The Outlook for European Gas Markets: A Conversation with Joel Hancock

86

Fiscal Sustainability in Italy & the U.K.

87

What Are the Costs of Permanently High Inflation?

88

The Painful Adjustment of the German Economy

89

Review of This Week&#039;s ECB Meeting (Sept 2022)

90

The ECB&#039;s July Meeting: An Attempt To Square the Circle?

91

How much ECB hiking is needed to get inflation under control?

92

Will Higher Interest Rates Lead to Higher Capital Productivity?

93

A Conversation with Klaus Regling (ESM) about Europe

94

The ECB&#039;s Fight Against Country Spreads: Limits &amp; Opportunities

95

Review of this Week&#039;s ECB Meeting (June 2022)

96

What Drives the Labor Share of Income?

97

A Conversation with Lars Feld (Economic Advisor to the German Finance Minister)

98

The Cyclical Outlook for the Euro Area: Difficult Business

99

Who is Olaf Scholz? A Conversation with Mark Schieritz (Die Zeit)

100

Two Challenges for the ECB: A Faster Green Transition & International Decoupling