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The ECB and the TPI: How to Measure the Fragmentation Risk in the Eurozone Sovereign Bond Market

We use the pricing mechanism of perpetual loans by our proposed European Debt Agency to determine a dynamic yield corridor that captures idiosyncratic risk and filters liquidity risk.

The Global Race to Regulate AI: Biden’s Executive Order Spillover Effects on the EU AI Act

On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration issued the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Executive Order 14110, which marks a key development in the global race to regulate AI

Europeans Deserve Better

The way the EU Commission and governments envisage launching future enlargements without strengthening the EU in parallel could have negative consequences for all Europeans, in the EU and in candidate countries.

EU, US, UK: A Tale of Three Inflations

The US and the euro area have similar headline inflation rates, but very different drivers. In the US, inflation is mainly driven by housing costs. By contrast in the euro area energy now provides an important negative element, that is offset to a la...

A Political Earthquake in the Netherlands and What It May Mean

Whatever comes out of this election result, Dutch politics has become more volatile and complex in the coming years. This will likely have consequences not only for the Netherlands but also for the EU

Torna l’effetto “palla di neve” sul debito pubblico italiano?

La Nota di aggiornamento del Documento di Economia e Finanza indica che la stabilizzazione del debito pubblico italiano richiede il raggiungimento di un surplus primario superiore al 3% del Pil nel giro dei prossimi 3-4 anni. Una manovra restrittiva ...

De Vries Catherine

Catherine De Vries

Catherine De Vries has ben President of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University until December 2025. She is passionate about academic service and leadership. In addition, she cares deeply about political science research and teaching. She examines some of the key challenges facing the European continent today, such as Euroscepticism, political fragmentation, migration and corruption. Currently, she is working on research project (LOSS), funded through a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council, which examines the conditions under which economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas.

Throughout her career, she has published several books in addition to a large set of research articles. Next to research, she regularly provides commentary in newspaper outlets and is a columnist for the Dutch Het Financieele Dagblad. She also serves as the scientific advisor for eupinions funded by the Bertelsmann Foundation, as a member of European Integration Committee of the Dutch Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. For her societal impact, she was selected a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum in 2013. In 2014, she was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion Section of the American Political Science Association, and in 2015, the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for Best Paper in Women and Politics of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Buchner Barbara

Barbara Buchner

Barbara Buchner is Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative. Named one of the 20 most influential women in climate change and one of the 100 most influential people in climate policy, Barbara advises leaders on climate, energy, and land use investments around the world.

Barbara directs the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab). The Lab’s public-private approach solicits, shapes, and tests cutting edge climate finance instruments that resolve financing barriers hindering alternative energy, adaptation, and land use projects. Instruments from the Lab have mobilized over USD 3.5 billion for sustainable development in developing economies.

She is also the lead author on the Global Landscape of Climate Finance, which has set the benchmark for climate finance tracking, and Climate Finance in 2013-14 and the USD 100 billion goal – a joint report with the OECD that played a seminal role in the lead up to the Paris Agreement. In addition, Barbara built and directs the San Giorgio Group, which brings together climate finance leaders to engage on critical issues that require collective effort to accelerate the transition to more sustainable, lower-emission economies.

Calliari Elisa

Elisa Calliari

Elisa Calliari is Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change

L’allargamento e il futuro dell’Unione Europea

Il secondo appuntamento di una serie di tre working lunch realizzati congiuntamente da ECFR Roma, SDA Bocconi e l’Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University.