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- What happens if Bitcoin succeeds? https://voxeu.org/article/what-happens-if-bitcoin-succeeds 3 comments
- How wars, plagues, and urban disease propelled Europe’s rise to riches http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node%2F3823 4 comments
- Do you really want to tax ability? http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node%2F3651 30 comments
- External military threats help to create a stronger European identity and cooperation https://voxeu.org/article/external-military-threats-help-create-stronger-european-identity-and-cooperation 6 comments europe
- Can China’s outsized real estate sector amplify a Delta-induced slowdown? by Kenneth Rogoff https://voxeu.org/article/can-china-s-outsized-real-estate-sector-amplify-delta-induced-slowdown 3 comments economics
- The impact of COVID-19 on global production https://voxeu.org/article/impact-covid-19-global-production 2 comments economics
- Minimum legal drinking age and the social gradient in binge drinking https://voxeu.org/article/minimum-legal-drinking-age-and-social-gradient-binge-drinking 24 comments europe
- The spread of Covid-19 and attending football matches in England https://voxeu.org/article/spread-covid-19-and-attending-football-matches-england 12 comments soccer
- Regulating Fintech in Europe: Lessons from the collapse of Wirecard https://voxeu.org/article/regulating-fintech-europe-lessons-wirecard 3 comments europe
- Excess mortality: England is the European outlier in the Covid-19 pandemic https://voxeu.org/article/excess-mortality-england-european-outlier-covid-19-pandemic 10 comments europe
- Corona bonds – great idea but complicated in reality https://voxeu.org/article/corona-bonds-great-idea-complicated-reality 8 comments europe
- The European Union and democracy must deliver | Manifesto from Portuguese economists calls for urgent EU action to prevent suffering and to save itself and its democratic values. A large-scale emergency programme requires massive emergency funding, and the ECB must be allowed to finance it. https://voxeu.org/article/european-union-and-democracy-must-deliver 4 comments europe
- The IT revolution and southern Europe's two lost decades https://voxeu.org/article/it-revolution-and-southern-europes-two-lost-decades 32 comments italy
- Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction: Cross-national evidence on one million Europeans https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dissatisfaction 32 comments technology
- Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dissatisfaction 3 comments economy
- International evidence for Keynesian economics without the Phillips curve https://voxeu.org/article/international-evidence-keynesian-economics-without-phillips-curve 3 comments economy
- Taxing the 1%: Why the top tax rate could be over 80% https://voxeu.org/article/taxing-1-why-top-tax-rate-could-be-over-80 11 comments italy
- Gli effetti perversi della contrattazione collettiva https://voxeu.org/article/perverse-effects-centralised-bargaining 7 comments italy
- Why is Spain’s unemployment so high? https://voxeu.org/article/why-spain-s-unemployment-so-high 12 comments europe
- Why European women have few babies https://voxeu.org/article/why-european-women-have-few-babies#.w4dcqblrrli.reddit 99 comments europe
- Lessons from the economics of crime https://voxeu.org/article/lessons-economics-crime#.W3FPkp6O3cU.reddit 6 comments law
- Questo nuovo paper dell’FMI mostra come la globalizzazione abbia avvantaggiato i paesi meno integrati in termini di maggiore crescita favorendo la convergenza dei redditi. A livello subnazionale, invece, l’integrazione ha portato maggiore vantaggio alle fasce più ricche aumentando le disuguaglianze. https://voxeu.org/article/how-income-gains-globalisation-are-distributed 8 comments italy
- Questo studio analizza come la debole presenza dello Stato in Sicilia abbia portato a usare la mafia per reprimere i fasci contadini permettendole di proliferare; e come lo sviluppo della mafia abbia avuto effetti negativi su istruzione, erogazione di servizi pubblici, crescita dell’area interessata https://voxeu.org/article/causes-and-consequences-sicilian-mafia 34 comments italy
- The impact of immigration on wage distributions in the era of technical automation | Policies to reduce low-skilled migration with the aim of favouring native middle-class labour market opportunities may in fact do the opposite http://voxeu.org/article/immigration-era-automation 3 comments europe
- Secondo un nuovo studio sui brevetti USA relativi all'automazione, l'effetto netto sull'occupazione è stato positivo: l'automazione ha sì distrutto impieghi nel manifatturiero, ma ha anche creato una quantità superiore di posti di lavoro nel settore dei servizi che ha più che compensato la perdita. http://voxeu.org/article/benign-effects-automation-new-evidence 4 comments italy
- Le cause della stagnazione della produttività in Italia negli ultimi 20 anni secondo Zingales. Niente di nuovo: imprese incapaci di sfruttare i benefici dati dalle ICT a causa di mancanza di meritocrazia, clientelismo e istituzioni scadenti. http://voxeu.org/article/diagnosing-italian-disease 27 comments italy
- Nuove stime storiche dei salari reali confermano ulteriormente l'esistenza di significative divergenze Nord-Sud nello sviluppo e nel tenore di vita già al tempo dell'unità, dettate principalmente da un altrettanto considerevole gap nella formazione di capitale umano (= istruzione) http://voxeu.org/article/origins-italian-north-south-divide 7 comments italy
- The limitations of randomised controlled trials http://voxeu.org/article/limitations-randomised-controlled-trials 10 comments statistics
- US tariffs are an arbitrary and regressive tax http://voxeu.org/article/us-tariffs-are-arbitrary-and-regressive-tax#.whesa6d-zqw.twitter 3 comments politics
- The economic impact of Brexit-induced reductions in migration to the UK http://voxeu.org/article/economic-impact-brexit-induced-reductions-migration-uk 3 comments europe
- Drivers of inequality: Trade shocks versus top marginal tax rates - "The dramatic rise in inequality experienced in the US since 1980 can be traced to the Reagan tax cuts, not to trade." http://voxeu.org/article/drivers-inequality-trade-versus-tax-rates 51 comments politics
- Negotiating Britain’s new trade policy http://voxeu.org/article/negotiating-britain-s-new-trade-policy 12 comments europe
- Greece can still avoid a catastrophic exit from the Eurozone http://www.voxeu.org/article/greece-can-still-avoid-catastrophic-exit-eurozone 3 comments worldnews
- Germany and the future of the Euro http://www.voxeu.org/article/germany-and-future-euro 12 comments europe
- Study finds that sovereign debt is not harmful for growth http://www.voxeu.org/article/growth-and-sovereign-debt-correlation 12 comments europe
- Guns and votes: The victory of an intense minority against an apathetic majority http://www.voxeu.org/article/guns-and-votes 5 comments politics
- Are Germans really poorer than Spaniards, Italians and Greeks? http://www.voxeu.org/article/are-germans-really-poorer-spaniards-italians-and-greeks 93 comments europe
- Worrell DeLisle: Small open economies have to be managed differently: devaluation is contractionary in both the short and long run http://www.voxeu.org/article/why-devaluation-isn-t-viable-option-greece-insights-small-open-economy 3 comments europe
- The Eurozone Debt Crisis: Is This A Banking Problem? --- "Europe has built a monetary union with an inherent flaw – the absence of a sovereign safety net, since the debts accumulated by member states have been incurred in a currency that none controls" http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6970 3 comments worldnews
- Sub-prime crisis for dummies: an outstanding explaination of the banking system and what is actually going on. http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/466 7 comments reddit.com