Europe
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Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
Jan 4, 2024
Germany’s debt brake and EU fiscal rules will make it well neigh impossible for EU countries to fund the investments needed to decarbonize their economies.
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Sexual Harassment and Wages: The Paradox of Power
Jun 2, 2023
The wage effect of hostile working conditions, mainly in terms of sexual harassment risk in the workplace, should be considered and monitored as a first critical step in making women less vulnerable at work and increasing their bargaining power.
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Working Paper
The Wage Effect of Workplace Sexual Harassment: Evidence for Women in Europe
Jun 2023
Changes to deeply entrenched systems of unequal gender power dynamics, roles and relations, underpinned by patriarchal values, are part of an effective response to the prevention of sexual harassment and its economic consequences.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
Estimation of Stock Flow Consistent Models
This research project develops, estimates, calibrates, and deploys a new class of stock flow consistent macroeconomic models to try to understand Ireland’s macroeconomic collapse since 2007.
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Autos and the European Union: Another Crash?
Aug 30, 2021
In Europe, imbalances in the structure of the automotive and a lack of industrial policies risk creating a deadly cocktail for millions of European workers just as the auto sector is undergoing decisive changes.
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Working Paper Series
Automotive Global Value Chains in Europe
Aug 2021
In Europe, imbalances in the structure of the automotive and a lack of industrial policies risk creating a deadly cocktail for millions of European workers just as the auto sector is undergoing decisive changes.
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Local David Versus Global Goliath
Jan 15, 2021
Populist parties and the decline of progressive politics in Italy
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Working Paper Series
Local David Versus Global Goliath: Populist Parties and the Decline of Progressive Politics in Italy
Jan 2021
This paper analyzes the role of local spending, particularly on social welfare, and local inequality as factors in the Italian political crisis following the adoption in 2011 of more radical national austerity measures.
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Working Paper
Germany and China Have Savings Gluts, the USA Is a Sump: So What?
Aug 2020
An alternative look at the “global savings glut”
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Corona Crisis and Eurobonds
May 26, 2020
The Calamity of Germany’s Distorted Perception of Italy
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The Eurozone in Crisis
May 4, 2020
A Report From the Front Line
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The Political Economy of the French Pension System Reform(s)
Apr 22, 2020
Just before the crisis, European countries were designing austerity reforms that would increase inequality and reduce internal demand. Could they return?
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Europe and the Need for Multilateralism
Apr 14, 2020
A call to action for a world economy in crisis
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The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
Apr 1, 2020
What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work
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Working Paper Series
The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ Versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’
Apr 2020
This paper considers the ambition, scale, substance and strategy of the European Union’s Green Deal