This chapter investigates the welfare implications of introducing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in an economy with tax evasion and varying degrees of central bank independence (CBI). The model considers scenarios with and without central bank independence, where the fiscal authority...

The Consultative Commission on Industrial Change is 20 years old as a distinctive body within the EESC. It has a historic heritage, but it is closely associated with the present and the future of Europe's industrial strategy and the green and digital transition shaping it. On 8 June 2022 it...

The Consultative Commission on Industrial Change is 20 years old as a distinctive body within the EESC. It has a historic heritage, but it is closely associated with the present and the future of Europe's industrial strategy and the green and digital transition shaping it. On 8 June 2022 it...

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) was set up as a consultative body of the European Union in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. The EESC is an advisory assembly composed of 329 members from Europe's socio-economic sphere nominated by national governments and appointed in a personal...

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) was set up as a consultative body of the European Union in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. The EESC is an advisory assembly composed of 329 members from Europe's socio-economic sphere nominated by national governments and appointed in a personal...