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Project Beethoven - The Dutch Strategy to Support the Chip Technology Leader ASML
Project Beethoven allocates €2.51 billion to “…strengthen the Dutch chip industry and support the future growth of activities in the Brainport Eindhoven hub.”, “…investment in vocational and professional talent, and in sufficient space, goo...
The Agenda-Setting Nature of Draghi’s Report for the New European Commission
While the focus of the new Commission will be crystallizing over the months and years to come, this short analysis of the mission letters for the future Commissioners suggests that the recent intervention of Mario Draghi on Europe’s competitiveness h...
Luxembourg’s Finance Minister: “I do not Believe that Fortress Europe is a Viable Option”
On September 19, mister Roth gave a lecture to Bocconi students titled “Europe at the Crossroads: Turning Today’s Poly-Crisis Into Tomorrow’s Poly-Opportunity”. Eleanor Spaventa, a professor of European Law at Bocconi and a member of the IEP@BU manag...
Policy Brief n.27 - The Elusive Cost of Trade Disruption
Robust port infrastructure can significantly mitigate the risk of supply chain disruption, suggesting that government efforts are better targeted at improving the performance of ports and critical infrastructure more broadly, rather than implementing...
What Trump’s Re-Election Reveals about the Nature of the European Union
The narrative of the EU as a peace project is that it allowed Europeans to reject military investments on the basis of the excuse that we were living in a post-war society. This is not true.
Who’s Afraid of ‘Tariff Man’?
A second term for Donald Trump could structurally intensify the trend toward trade fragmentation, heightening tensions, particularly between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies.
Bruni Franco
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Franco Bruni
Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Bocconi University; President, Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI); Member of the Board of Directors, Banca Sella Holding.
Report - Assessing the ECB’s Monetary Policy Stance by Comparing Tightening Cycles
The main finding is that at the peak of the latest tightening cycle, the ECB monetary policy stance was no more restrictive than it was at the peak of the two preceding ones; actually, probably less. Report Co-ordinator Francesco Decarolis.