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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.

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.

Bruni Franco

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.

Inflation, the Fed and the US Elections

The fact that prices have risen considerably compared to four years ago will matter more to most voters when voting, and not that they have caused growth to slow.

How the Politics of Illusions Threatens Democracy - A Keynote Speech by Mario Monti

The Honorary President of the IEP@BU Mario Monti opened the international conference "Democracy Today," organized by the Konstantinos Karamanlis Foundation in Athens, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Greece's transition to democracy

How Demographic Trends in the US Electorate Could Shape the Presidential Race

The age demographics in key swing states reveal a significant number of young potential voters who are more likely to support Kamala Harris. However, young voters are historically the least likely to turn out at the polls.

The European Consequences of the America First Approach

Europe will be called upon to make a difficult decision between pursuing the protectionist policies of the United States or taking advantage of the diplomatic and economic opportunities that American isolationism could offer.

Policy Brief n.28 - A Tale of Two Crises

Building on a previous analysis of the trends of convergence and divergence between peripheral and core EA-12 countries after the euro area sovereign debt crisis (Bordignon et al., 2023), this work investigates the long-term evolution of such differe...

Bank profitability: a mirror of the past, creating a vision for the future

A lecture by Claudia Buch, Chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism at European Central Bank

Buch Claudia

Claudia Buch

Claudia Buch is the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, appointed on 1 January 2024. She is a member of the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements. Claudia Buch was the Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from May 2014 to December 2023, and before she was the President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), professor of economics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Tübingen, and member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, was awarded a doctoral degree and a habilitation (German post-doc degree) by the University of Kiel, and she studied Economics at the University of Bonn.