Publications

This paper examines the issue of price stability and especially its short-run cost in terms of foregone output and higher unemployment. It aims to find the "sacrifice ratio" for the Euro area and for ...chevron_right

This publication discusses border security in support of the global "war against terrorism" and explains that the build-up of defenses occurs in most cases at the expense of civil liberties. The paper...chevron_right

This paper attributes the weakening of human rights to the gradual disappearance of the person as the subject of rights in contemporary legal systems. It argues that this vanishing legal personhood is...chevron_right

This paper questions the logic of generalized suspicion in indictment and detention procedures in the context of the war on terror. It seeks to understand the legal oscillation between resistance and ...chevron_right

This working document offers a conceptual framework for understanding the processes underpinning the external dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs (ED-JHA). Practically, it defines how the export ...chevron_right

Information asymmetries are pervasive in the financial services industry, but the lack of transparency in commodity derivatives markets is particularly striking. Over 85% of commodity-derivative tradi...chevron_right

As the financial crisis unfolded, regulators responded at national, European and global level. One year on, some clear shifts are discernible in the institutional set-up, but they have probably not be...chevron_right

This paper discusses the question of whether central banks should react to stock price developments and influence asset prices so as to prevent bubbles and crashes from occurring. The author talks abo...chevron_right

This analysis evaluates the relative pension positions of men and women, under different characterizations of their respective working lives and pension designs. The authors consider both a Defined Be...chevron_right

This study focuses on the financial resources needed to fight global climate change and the implications for the EU budget. The authors estimate global financing requirements and determine the resourc...chevron_right

This paper examines the European Commission's communications on the evaluation and future development of the EU's external border management. One deals with the European Agency for the Management of O...chevron_right

This brief discusses the consequences of the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia for the two countries as well as for the EU and the US. The author draws four main conclusions from the war. First, Geo...chevron_right

This paper points to a number of things that need to be done to make the EU more comprehensible and acceptable to all its peoples. The authors also suggest steps that could be taken to implement uncon...chevron_right

This brief summarizes the main observations and arguments presented in a study undertaken by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) for the European Commission. The study argues that globalizat...chevron_right

This paper discusses the relationship between violence among European youth, Islamist ideology and al-Qaida. With the aim of examining the roots of terrorism, the author deconstructs the often-made li...chevron_right