Bruegel event recordings

On 8 February Bruegel organised an event on the world’s response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The event looked at where the initiative is five years on, and discussed the response of the Indo-Pacific, US, Japan, Australia, India and Europe. We also discussed the Europe-Asia Connectivity plan and how China is reacting to the ongoing trade war. The event featured the presentations of two Bru...

At this event we discussed the paper “Estimating the cost of capital for wind energy investments in Turkey”, written by Gustav Fredriksson, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann. The paper proposes an estimation of the cost of capital for wind energy investments in Turkey. Seeing as wind energy, like all renewable energies, is highly capital intensive compared to investments into conventional en...

In today’s world disinformation is increasingly becoming a tool used in the political arena. Think Tanks play a crucial role in combating this by providing fact-based analysis and policy advice. This event will discuss the global trends in politics and policy advice. The event is also intended to underscore the importance of international cooperation and knowledge and policy partnerships. These ar...

Globalization and rapid technological change have created opportunities but also intensified risks and insecurity. This event featured the presentation of the recently published World Bank report “Towards a New Social Contract: Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia”, which shows that societies need a welfare state now more than ever. Insecurity and risks are not shared equal...

In June 2018, the EU and Australia launched negotiations for a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. Australia’s position in the world as a top 20 trading nation is underpinned by its advocacy for an open global economy and by trade agreements that ensure the lowest possible barriers to trade and investment. The Australia-EU FTA negotiations seek to provide new opportunities for companies and consum...

Rising markups, market power and market concentration are considered primary concerns that require an immediate policy response. At this event we will analyse the reasons behind the global trends in corporate margins and market concentration. Do they signal a lack of market competition or are they linked to new technology efficiencies and the organic growth of industrial players? We will also disc...

Markups measure how much higher prices of output goods are relative to their marginal production costs. In other words, they measure the margin of revenue over variable costs. Recent literature, starting with De Loecker and Eeckhout (2018), reports that markups have substantially increased since 1980. At this event we will review the available empirical evidence on markups and investigate the impl...

The event presented the EIB Investment Report, which is the bank’s flagship economic publication. Published once a year, it is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the developments and drivers of investment and credit conditions in the EU. The presentation also covered an in-depth study of innovation, investment in intangible assets and digitalisation as drivers of productivity growth....

Presentation William Kovacic, Professor of global competition law and policy, George Washington University ; Former chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission Panel discussion Chair: Georgios Petropoulos, Research Fellow Cristina Caffarra, Vice President, Head of European Competition Practice, Charles River Associates Antonio Capobianco, Senior competition expert, OECD Kris Dekeyser, Director, Policy...

Georg Zachmann, Senior Fellow, Bruegel Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Senior Economist, Environment Directorate and Economics Department, OECD Beatriz Yordi Aguirre, Director for EU and International Carbon Markets, European Commission, DG CLIMA Sander de Bruyn, Environmental economics coordinator, CE Delft

Presentation: Glen Weyl, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Panel discussion: Chair: Georgios Petropoulos, Research Fellow, Bruegel Eline Chivot, Senior policy analyst, ITIF's Center for Data Innovation Orla Lynskey, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics Bertin Martens, Senior economist and team leader for the Digital Economy research programme, European Commission, JRC Thiébaut We...

How to speed up sustainable finance? by BruegelEvents

Reviewing the EU fiscal framework by BruegelEvents

European Banking Supervision: the past five years and prospects for the future by BruegelEvents

Does Europe’s Anti - Money Laundering Framework Need A Regime Change by BruegelEvents

After the ECOFIN meeting, Bruegel and the Financial Times hosted a conversation with the Minister of Finance from Spain to discuss challenges related to pressing issues in the agenda ahead of the European Council in December, including European Monetary Union reforms and digital taxation.

The European Union often punches below its weight because of unclear governance. Reforming the governance of the continent has become urgent for three reasons: more politically-sensitive topics are now at the core of the debates, Europe faces greater external challenges, and future EU enlargement will potentially increase the diversity of the bloc’s membership. In this conversation Ulrike Guerot,...

Session II - Global leaders in free trade- who are they today?

Session I - The Real Economic Impact of the EU-Japan EPA?

Structural reforms in Europe: policy lessons from the crisis by BruegelEvents

Perils and potential: China-US-EU trade relations by BruegelEvents

China's Digital Economy by BruegelEvents

Margrethe Vestager Keynote Speech At Bruegel Annual Dinner - Bruegel Annual Meetings 2018 by BruegelEvents

The Future Of Europes Financial System - Bruegel Annual Meetings 2018 - Session 5 by BruegelEvents

Academic Lecture The Misthinking Of Globalisation - Bruegel Annual Meetings 2018 - Session 4 by BruegelEvents