A big part of the EU-US productivity gap is due to the EU investing less in ICT-related tangible and intangible capital. These lower investments are partly explained by EU digital regulations limiting companies' access to modern endowments like data. Limits to these endowments push EU firms...

The EU Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive shifts the costs of compliance with social and environmental rules to private entities within complex supply networks.To ensure effective and cost-efficient implementation, the Directive should aim to reduce economic complexity. Regulations...

We examine the issue of the appropriate selection of macroprudential instruments according to the vulnerabilities identified and the policymakers' objectives using a version of the 3D DSGE model following Mendicino et al. (2020) and Hinterschweiger et al. (2021) calibrated for the euro area. We...

GRIDMAP--the Global Regulations, Institutional Development, and Market Authorities Perspective Toolkit--provides emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) with a "Minimum Package" of policies to build markets that are trustworthy, safe, and competitive. The "Minimum Package" sets out...

The GRIDMAP, Global Regulations, Institutional Development and Market Authorities Perspective Consumer Protection Module, aims to develop consumer trust in markets by providing a toolkit to build fair, secure, and contestable markets that enable all consumers to make informed choices

To achieve high-income status by 2045, Vietnam must accelerate regulatory reforms to boost productivity. Vietnam's stellar economic success story over the last 30 years relied on export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI), but reaching high-income status requires accelerating productivity...