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Advanced Economies

Rhodium’s advanced economies team analyzes the shocks and challenges confronting higher-income mature economies.

Assessing the declining commercial and political dominance of the incumbent economic leaders requires a multi-disciplinary approach and insights derived equally from quantitative analysis, political assessment and frequent interactions with policymakers.

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Jun 10, 2020

COVID-19 has not undermined the prospects for Europe’s Green Deal

The question facing Europe is whether a recovery necessarily means a return to the status quo. There are, however, several reasons why the pandemic has not hurt the prospects for Europe’s Green Deal and may well end up boosting them.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
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Mar 17, 2020

Europe must go big in its macroeconomic response to COVID-19

Europe, and noticeably the euro area, is finding it politically challenging to implement timely and comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization measures in a crisis, mainly because of its incomplete institutional framework with no centralized fiscal authority. Will the COVID-19 crisis be any different?
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
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Sep 16, 2019

An EU "Green New Deal" Requires a Far Higher Price on Carbon

Europe should forge ahead with an ambitious plan to make the cost of using fossil fuels effectively exorbitant.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
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Sep 4, 2019

Back to the Center: Italy's New Governing Coalition Faces Tough Choices

Italy’s new governing coalition, combining the populist Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, has done more than sideline the right-wing forces of League Party leader Matteo Salvini.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard
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