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The Meloni Government's Budgetary Policy
Our analysis indicates that the budgetary documents presented by the Italian government are based on excessively optimistic forecasts regarding GDP growth, the effectiveness of budgetary measures and the revenues connected to privatizations. As a res...
Term Premia for the Euro Area and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy
Given the common monetary policy in Europe, term premia on bonds issued by different countries are an immediate gauge of the heterogeneity in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in Europe and of the need for intervention to protect the Euro...
Unprecedented sanctions against Russia pose legal challenges to EU institutions
If Russia's invasion and assault on Ukraine can be unequivocally classified as aggression, then the response to this violation must also adhere to international legal standards.
Generative AI - A concise primer for non-experts
A concise introduction into the workings of large language models is presented. We start with an introduction to the attention mechanism, the core of the transformer architecture, which is then followed by a discussion of the steps needed to engineer...
Creating a Mandate for EU Policy Reform
How can broad public support for policy reforms and gridlock be overcome? The main mechanism for achieving this in political systems across the democratic world is open competition for the main executive office: the President of the Commission, in th...
US dollar doomsayers could be wrong about imminent demise
So much international trade happens in dollars that it would be very difficult to turn the tide against the currency any time soon.
"The releasing of ChatGPT will be remembered as one of the most irresponsible acts of the 21st century": a conversation with Daron Acemoglu
“You can do some pretty impressive things with AI as a technological platform, but I am not necessarily an optimist because there are also some very negative paths that AI could take as a technology. We have a confluence of factors that make the nega...
Perché all'Italia conviene approvare la riforma del Mes
Il dibattito sulla riforma del Meccanismo Europeo di Stabilità (MES) - che l’Italia rimane l’unico Paese UE a non avere ratificato - è tornato al centro del dibattito politico italiano. All’interno della maggioranza di governo sembrano coesistere due...
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Alan Dashwood
Alan Dashwood began teaching European Community Law in 1970 and have been specialised in it since the period he spent at the European Court of Justice as Advocate General Warner’s Legal Secretary (1978-1980). At Cambridge, until his retirement, he lectured on the Part IB/Part II EU Law paper of the Law Tripos (undergraduate degree) and he established or helped to establish new LLM courses on External Relations Law of the EU, Contemporary Issues in the Law of European Integration and EU Trade Law. He also supervised a large number of PhD students. At City University, he lectured on EU Law to undergraduate students and lectured to and tutor students who were candidates for the Graduate Diploma in Law (the former “Conversion Course”).
Policy Brief n.5 - The ECB in the Face of an Unprecedented Energy Shock
Our starting point was the stark increase in non-energy price inflation, which is the key element for the ECB since monetary policy cannot do anything about energy prices. Could the ECB have foreseen this development? Our analysis suggests that this ...