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Bank Profitability in Uncertain Times

While banks are now profiting from the new interest rate scenario, the ultimate long-term effect of heightened interest rates on bank performance remains uncertain.

Italy & Europe, How Germany Learned to Stop Fearing the ESM

With the establishment of the ESM, the original form of the states' own responsibility for their budgetary policy (no bailout clause), which was central to Germany, has been permanently softened.

Do EU Directives on Women on Boards and on Pay Transparency Reduce Gender Gaps?

The EU directives on Women on Boards and on Pay Transparency have a clear objective: to reduce gender gaps in European countries. Assessing their effectiveness requires a thorough understanding of the outcomes of similar policies based on research.

Schubert Katheline

Katheline Schubert

Katheline Schubert is a Professor at University Paris 1‐Panthéon‐Sorbonne and holds an associate chair at Paris School of Economics. She is a CESifo research fellow, and co‐director of the Globalization, development and environment program at CEPREMAP. She is a member of the French High Council for Climate and the French Economic Council for Sustainable Development. She is also past‐president of the French Economic Association. Her research interests are in environmental economics, natural resources economics, dynamic macroeconomics and sustainable growth. Her most recent works are on climate economics and on energy transition. She has published on these topics in many academic journals, among which the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Energy Journal, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Public Economic Theory. She graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and earned her PhD in economics from University Paris 1‐ Panthéon‐Sorbonne.

Policy Brief n.8 - The Banking Union, Ten Years After

Even though European banks do have solid Basel ratios, their profitability is insufficient to make them attractive for investors. This suggests that – from the market’s perspective - the system may not be as sound and stable as regulators believe

Monetary Policy and Financial Stability

A lecture by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, who will speak about "Has the fight against inflation been won?"

CBAM and the Global South, The Unintended Consequences of the EU’s Carbon Pricing System

Global South countries will struggle to deal with unintended consequences of the EU carbon pricing scheme: they are being asked to limit additions to the stock of carbon from now on. This is without any significant financial transfers, or, more impor...

A meeting with Romain Svartzman, a IEP@BU new Research Fellow

Everyone is invited to attend this brainstorming seminar to talk about Romain's research and exchange views on the topics at the core of its work, from ecological transition, to critical metals, and their connection to the financial and market sector...

Svartzman Romain

Romain Svartzman

Romain Svartzman is Head of the Environmental Macroeconomics and Policy Unit at Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking (IEP@BU), a Senior Executive Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP, University College London).

His recent and ongoing research includes: developing scenarios of ecological transition (including geopolitical factors, particularly with regard to critical metals) and assessing their macrofinancial implications; and exploring reforms of the international monetary and financial system/architecture through institutionalist and IPE (international political economy) approaches.

He completed his PhD in ecological macroeconomics at McGill University (Canada). He also holds a master’s degree in Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and a degree in Economics and Law of Climate Change from FLACSO Argentina.

Romain previously worked as: a senior economist for the Banque de France (until 2024); an environmental risk management officer for the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group); and an investor in 'green’ technologies for a French venture capital firm.

Italy & Europe, Why Greeks Had no Hurdles in Approving the Modified ESM

The ratification of the modified ESM treaty by the Greek parliament took place easily, and smoothly, without the usual political tensions. The text was submitted to the plenary on the 28th of June 2021 and a week later, on July 6th, it was adopted by...