Spitzenkandidaten visions for the future of Europe’s economy
European elections are coming, sending voters to the polls to weigh in on the European Union’s next leadership slate. For the second time, the European political families have selected lead candidates...
View ArticleCould revising the posted workers directive improve social conditions?
In this parliamentary testimony Zsolt Darvas discussed the importance of posted workers in driving down wages/social conditions in high-wage EU countries and made several conclusions on the state of...
View ArticleEU posted workers: separating fact and fiction
A posted worker is someone who is temporarily (typically for a few months/days) sent to a country different to the country of his/her employer to carry out a service in a host country. For example, a...
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The cost of remittances
Stephen Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz document the stubbornly high cost of remittances, and look at avenues for cost reduction. Today, remittance flows are triple what they were in 2000 and five times...
View ArticlePreliminary observations on the European Commission’s Android decision
How is the European Commission’s recent Android case likely to affect digital services in Europe going forward? In July of this year, the European Commission announced that it had reached a decision in...
View ArticleVertical restraints and e-commerce
This paper has been published at Concurrences Review N° 1-2018, Art. N° 86057 www.concurrences.com and has been nominated for the 2019 Antitrust Awards. You can vote for it here. In this paper, the...
View ArticleThe Alstom-Siemens merger and the need for European champions
Siemens and Alstom, Europe’s largest suppliers in the rail market, were one European Commission decision short of merging into a single ‘European champion’ that would become a global leader in the...
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New EU industrial policy can only succeed with focus on completion of single...
This article was first published by Le Monde. France and Germany recently unveiled a manifesto for a European industrial policy fit for the 21st century, sparking a lively debate across the continent....
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Europe and the new imperialism
This article was published by Project Syndicate. Imperialism, Lenin wrote a century ago, is defined by five key features: the concentration of production; the merging of financial and industrial...
View ArticleBreaking up big companies and market power concentration
On March 8th, US senator Elizabeth Warren published an essay outlining her proposal to break up the country’s big tech companies, specifically naming Amazon, Google and Facebook. These companies,...
View ArticleSpitzenkandidaten visions for the future of Europe’s economy
For the full recordings visite the Spitzenkandidaten Series page European elections are coming, sending voters to the polls to weigh in on the European Union’s next leadership slate. For the second...
View ArticleHow should the relationship between competition policy and industrial policy...
Bruno Le Maire, the French minister of the economy and finance, in his recent talk at Bruegel, referred to the necessity to make technological sovereignty one of the top priorities of Europe through...
View ArticleModernising European Competition Policy: A Brief Review of Member States’...
The French, German and Polish governments have jointly proposed options for modernising EU competition policy. While speaking at Bruegel, Bruno le Maire, the French minister of economy and finance,...
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European champion-ships: industrial champions and competition policy
I. Introduction The European Commission’s prohibition of the Siemens-Alstom tie-up in February 2019 re-invigorated the debate on whether European competition rules should foster European industrial...
View ArticleBackstage at BAM19: Designing a competition policy fit for Europe’s needs.
Should competition policy adjust to current concerns and support industrial policy? How can we contextualise long-run consumer welfare? How can we maintain independence and objectivity in enforcement?...
View ArticleAddressing the EU’s Global Challenges Locally: the EU’s Competition and...
The European Union, the world’s largest consumer market, needs a clearer vision for how it wants to manage competition and state subsidies affecting European markets and consumers. As business becomes...
View ArticleBanking, FinTech, Big Tech: Emerging challenges for financial policymakers
This article was also published on VoxEU FinTech (financial technology) firms, generally start-ups that offer a specifically targeted financial service, and Big Techs, globally active technology firms...
View ArticleQuestions to the Competition Commissioner-designate
In her Mission Letters to Commissioner-designate, Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, created a series of interrelated issues of that the Members of the...
View ArticleCan EU competition law address market distortions caused by state-controlled...
This Policy Contribution considers whether European competition law could be applied more directly to state owned enterprises that create an unlevel playing field in Europe due to the support they...
View ArticleThe Sound of Margrethe Vestager
Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff went to the...
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