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...

The European Union's industrial policy has gained renewed significance in response to geopolitical shifts, intensifying global competition, and the twin digital and green transitions. This paper analyses the coinciding role that EU State aid law plays as a coordinating instrument for EU...

This paper argues that the potential of the European single market in providing economic security within a dramatically changed context has been overlooked. It aims to fill the gaps in current understandings of economic security by developing an expanded framework that incorporates the key...

This paper explores the role of export-oriented firms in shaping regional economic development, with a focus on their operational footprint, strategic orientation, and interaction with institutional and infrastructural environments. Set within the broader context of regional competitiveness and...

This analysis looks at the compatibility with the EU Treaties of rules requiring signs, information and customer service to be in a regional language which is an official language of a Member States but not an official language of the EU. In order for rules to fall within the scope of the Treaty...

This analysis looks at the compatibility with the EU Treaties of rules requiring signs, information and customer service to be in a regional language which is an official language of a Member States but not an official language of the EU. In order for rules to fall within the scope of the Treaty...

Focusing on a cross-border perspective, this paper identifies four key binding constraints that hinder firms' ability to innovate and scale up within the EU single market-fragmented regulations, inefficient financial intermediation, limited labor mobility, and fragmented energy market. To...

The Single Market Programme (SMP) is an EU funding programme providing EUR 4.2 billion over the period of 2021-2027 for an integrated package to improve the functioning of the internal market and protect and empower citizens and businesses, in particular SMEs. It brings together six predecessor...