This week ten years ago, Greece was on the brink of exiting the euro. The integrity of the currency union…
Governments are increasingly employing subsidies and other types of industrial policies in general (Hasanov and Cherif 2019, Juhász et al.…
Investment funds are important players in global financial markets. This column examines their behaviour and interaction with other investors during…
The transition from sail to steam power for cargo and passenger shipping to Australia lagged behind the North Atlantic by…
As geopolitical uncertainty rises, firms are increasingly factoring political alignment into their investment decisions. This column uses detailed global data…
Population ageing makes it harder for governments to finance programmes like public pensions and long-term care. But policy responses, such…
Policy debates around climate change frequently focus on the trade-off between the near-term costs of reducing carbon emissions and the…
The EU and the US have taken starkly different approaches to the regulation of new monies issued using distributed ledger…
The role of the US dollar is much in the news because confidence in it has been shaken by erratic…
Politicians often wager their campaigns on big-ticket promises. Donald Trump rode to power in 2016 vowing to build a US–Mexico…