Karl Pichelmann
Settling for "a new macroeconomic normal"?
The Bureau conversation discussed the likely features of "a new macroeconomic normal" following the inflationary shock in the wake of the...
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Karl Pichelmann
Record low unemployment: a seismic shift in labour markets?
Participants in the Bureau conversation discussed recent developments in the labour market and medium-term prospects, with some...
Karl Pichelmann
"Gear up for a loss of at least 5% in material consumption!"
The Bureau conversation centred around the contention of an inexorable decline in domestic material consumption possibilities in the...
Karl Pichelmann
An inevitable recession ahead?
The first Bureau conversation after the summer break took the form of an economic tour d´horizon. The lead speaker alluded to the...
Karl Pichelmann
The spectre of stagflation
Once again, the world economy is haunted by the spectre of stagflation – the possible return of simultaneous high inflation and...
Karl Pichelmann
European integration and populism
EU institutions and policy settings have been prone to populist attack from both the purely economic and the more cultural ‘nativist...
Karl Pichelmann
The economic consequences of Putin´s war
The conversation served to provide a quick interim assessment of the economic consequences of Putin´s war. Deploring the escalating human...
Karl Pichelmann
Inflation expectations reconsidered: just stay calm?
The conversation was overshadowed by the events unfolding in the Ukraine being attacked by Russian military forces. While it is probably...
Karl Pichelmann
Returning to a "new normal": Revising the EU fiscal rulebook
Starting from the freshly published Policy Brief by the Bureau´s Chief Economist, participants discussed possible contours of a revised...
Karl Pichelmann
Income distribution and redistribution in the EU
These presentation slides, prepared for a lecture at the University of Economics in Vienna, provide (i) an overview of income...
Karl Pichelmann
Cold turkey ahead?
In this conversation, participants discussed whether economies currently running on the steroids of extraordinarily expansionary monetary...
Karl Pichelmann
Re-opening boom or post-pandemic blues?
BfEI conversation #1: executive summary The conversation took the Commission´s Spring Forecast 2021 as the starting point for a debate...
Karl Pichelmann
Sketching the post-pandemic socio-economic agenda: Pertinent challenges in demanding new clothes
Obviously, the Covid-19 pandemic is more than a health crisis requesting hitherto unseen levels of spatial and social distancing. It has...
Karl Pichelmann
The EU economic response to the corona-crisis
A health crisis dealing a huge blow to the economy. Three main response steps. Next Generation EU: repare and prepare.
Karl Pichelmann
Bridging the growing divides: key take-aways from DG ECFIN's Annual Research Conference 2019
Marco Buti, Philipp Jaeger, Karl Pichelmann 03 December 2019 A full understanding of the political economy roots of the major economic,...
Karl Pichelmann
We have a deal – again!?
At the risk of being proven wrong by events in the coming 48 hours, it appears that a revised withdrawal agreement and political...
Karl Pichelmann
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