The European Union requires a single market for capital. Well-developed and integrated capital markets support economic growth and resilience across the region, offering benefits for businesses, households, and financial stability. This paper examines the importance of CMU in achieving five...

The European Union faces several simultaneous threats to its competitiveness: weakness in the industries of the future, insufficient innovation, expensive energy, the need to green its economy, and geopolitical and trade shifts, to name but a few. The EconPol Europe Annual Conference, on whose...

We propose and construct novel measures of the effectiveness and potential of trade blocs, combining estimation with granular data and simulation with a New Quantitative Trade Model. We deploy our methods and new indexes to quantify the potential benefits from (i) further integration within the...

Low market integration is a major barrier to European competitiveness in the digital economy. International collaboration of knowledge workers could help to harness market size advantage. Data from the largest coding platform reveals digital collaboration in Europe drops by 16.4 percent at...

As a company you can run into all kinds of legal and administrative obstacles preventing you from smoothly operating across the EU's single market. The European Commission is tracking these barriers in many areas, such as: insurance to do business, access to markets, including authorisations and...

As a company you can run into all kinds of legal and administrative obstacles preventing you from smoothly operating across the EU's single market. The European Commission is tracking these barriers in many areas, such as: insurance to do business, access to markets, including authorisations and...

Cyber Europe is a series of European Union-level cyber incident and crisis management exercises organised by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), intended for both the public and private sector across the European Union and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Member States....