Living with COVID-19: The thinking behind Spain’s lockdown exit plan

Miguel Otero-Iglesias. Expert Comment 21/2020 - 2/6/2020.

Spain’s lockdown exit plan is based on four pillars: (1) proper data and healthcare capacities; (2) geographical asymmetry; (3) a two-way street with different speeds; and (4) subsidiarity and co-responsibility.

A coordinated, unlimited and flexible insurance policy to respond to the pandemic

Gonzalo García-Andrés. ARI 40/2020 (English version) - 8/4/2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic requires a coordinated global response. This analysis highlights some of the main components.

Coronavirus: economic threat, political response and implications

Federico Steinberg. ARI 35/2020 (English version) - 3/4/2020.

What will be the economic impact of the coronavirus and what economic policy responses are required by this unprecedented situation?

Mody’s ‘Euro tragedy’: the counter story

Miguel Otero-Iglesias. WP 13/2018 - 16/9/2019.

This is a long and dissenting review, in nine acts, of Ashoka Mody’s book EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts, based on a political economy approach, generally absent in the book.

The main economic challenges confronting Spain’s next government

William Chislett. ARI 74/2019 - 24/6/2019.

Spain’s next government faces major economic challenges and to overcome them it needs to regain the reformist momentum that used to characterise the country before political uncertainty set in.

India in 2024: Narendra Modi once more, but to what end?

Alicia Garcia Herrero & Trinh Nguyen. ARI 57/2019 - 21/5/2019.

This analysis argues that Narendra Modi will have to deliver much bolder reforms in his second term in order to allow India to reach its potential turning its rising working age population into a demographic dividend.

The economic effects of Brexit in the “Campo de Gibraltar”: an econometric approach

Luis Galiano Bastarrica. ARI 26/2019 - 26/2/2019.

The UK’s exit from the EU has become a political maze. Uncertainties increase and so do the negative economic effects, especially on Britain’s European borders: Northern Ireland and the Campo de Gibraltar in Spain.

Spain’s 20 years in the euro: a beneficial straitjacket

William Chislett. Expert Comment 1/2019 - 4/1/2019.

We will never know with certainty whether Spain would have been better off not joining the euro. What we know is that in real GDP growth terms Spain has performed better than Germany, France and Italy since 1999.

Document of interest: G20 Leaders’ declaration. Building consensus for fair and sustainable development

. DI/MI - 5/12/2018.

Final declaration of the G20 summit held in Argentina last weekend. It is focused on the future of work, education and infrastructure, but lacks specific commitments on issues such as trade and climate.

Documento de la declaración final del G20 celebrado en Argentina, centrado en el futuro del trabajo, la educación y las infraestructuras pero sin compromisos concretos en cuestiones como el comercio y el clima.

Italy’s budget battle with the European Commission

Federico Steinberg. Expert Comment 52/2018 - 14/11/2018.

The European Commission has rejected Italy’s proposed draft budget because of how seriously it breached prior fiscal commitments, including an increase in the deficit to 2.4% of GDP, three times higher than originally agreed.