The construction of Europe as an integrated economic social and political region able to deliver inclusive prosperity and sustainable growth for its member states and across its boundaries has been a focus area of research and policy at CEPR for decades. In recent years, CEPR researchers have engaged in the debate about the reform of its Macroeconomic Policy strategies and institutions, contributing a number of policy proposals on how monetary fiscal and regulatory policies can interact most effectively. Much of the problems are common to other regions in the world: which macroeconomic policy framework is best suited to deal with large tail shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, to stabilize economies with a high level of public and private debt, to adjust to long-term trends in ageing and productivity, and to manage the macro dimensions of climate change and energy transition? Specific to the euro area are issues arising from the coexistence of independent fiscal policies and asymmetric fiscal outlooks, as well as from the need to define, deliver and finance common public goods and policies and contain imbalances.
In the past decades, “Rebooting Europe Project” endeavoured to find a consensus on the underlying causes and possible solutions of the crisis (Baldwin and Giavazzi 2015 and 2016). Two reports on Monitoring the Eurozone (2015 and 2016) made concrete proposals on how to reinforce the euro area construction and finally, CEPR Policy Insight 91 (2018), created an intense debate on how to reconcile risk sharing with market discipline in the euro area. Macroeconomic themes were centrestage in the debates on the CEPR debates on how to address the COVID-19 pandemic. The debate on Euro Area Reform on CEPR's policy portal VoxEU has gathered high-level reactions to this proposal.
From the pandemics and the War in the Ukraine on, the macroeconomic environment has profoundly changed, challenging the economic policy model as it has evolved in the post-GFC era. Conventional boundaries between monetary fiscal and regulatory policies have been blurred and interactions among these policies have become the norm. The question is how to make our policy institutions stronger, so to preserve the credibility and effectiveness of their policies. The purpose of the RPN on European Economic Policy (EEP) is to cons the leading forum for constructive contributions on reformulating the policy model.
The RPN is expected to become a key source of expertise on policy issues in particular for the euro area, and will help bridge national divisions in views and create a productive debate. Among its qualifying goals is promoting a stricter and effective integration of research and policy assessment/design, favouring multi-disciplinarity with the constructive engagement of economists with political scientists, historians and law experts. A particular promising direction of analysis, booming especially after COVID-19, consists of taking advantage of the increasing availability of large and rich databases on firms and households behaviour and government projects to pursue a micro-to-macro approach to policy evaluation.
The European Economic Architecture (EEA) RPN, established in September 2018 for an initial three-year term, has now evolved and been renamed European Economic Policy (EEP). It is currently led by Giancarlo Corsetti.
Events
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research Policy Network (RPN) European Economic Policy will host several events a year, including a Webinar Series in collaboration with the European and Monetary Union (EMU) Laboratory of the European University Institute (EUI).
EEP RPN Session at the CEPR Paris Symposium 2023
On Saturday, 9 December 2023, 14:30 - 15:30 (Paris time), the European Economic Policy RPN held the Panel "Rebuilding an Agenda for Europe" at Sciences Po during the CEPR Paris Symposium 2023.
EU Economic Policy and Architecture after Covid
On the Commission’s orientations for a revised economic governance in the EU
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- EU institutions ![](../../../../../../../../../../var/folders/34/zq18d8kx7kbgby0j06p_j6t40000gn/T/TemporaryItems/NSIRD_screencaptureui_EM2XPo/Screenshot 2022-01-04 at 17.01.16.png)
- EU policies
Why we need to reform the EU fiscal framework now
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- Macroeconomic policy
Members
Elga Bartsch
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyZsolt Darvas
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyXavier Debrun
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyGiovanni Dell'Ariccia
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyMarcel Fratzscher
Fellow, International Macroeconomics and FinanceReint Gropp
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyLucas Guttenberg
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyErik Jones
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyJan-Pieter Krahnen
RPN Leader, European Financial ArchitectureGeorge Papaconstantinou
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyLucrezia Reichlin
Fellow, Monetary Economics and FluctuationsHélène Rey
Fellow, International Macroeconomics and FinanceAndre Sapir
Fellow, International Trade and Regional EconomicsPhilippa Sigl-Glöckner
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyArmin Steinbach
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyRolf Strauch
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyMateusz Szczurek
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyShahin Vallee
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyIsabel Vansteenkiste
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyPierre-François Weber
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyBeatrice Weder di Mauro
CEPR PresidentGuntram B. Wolff
RPN Member, European Economic PolicyAssociate Fellows
Marco Buti
RPN Associate Fellow, European Economic PolicyNicolas Veron
RPN Associate Fellow, European Economic PolicyJakob von Weizsacker
RPN Associate Fellow, European Economic PolicyUpcoming events
CEPR Paris Symposium 2024
- Competition Policy
- European Economic Policy
- European Financial Architecture
- Fintech and Digital Currencies
- Geoeconomics
- Household Finance
- Inequality and the Role of Firms
- International Lending and Sovereign Debt
- Media Plurality
- Asset Pricing
- Banking and Corporate Finance
- Climate Change and the Environment
- Development Economics
- Economic History
- International Macroeconomics and Finance
- International Trade and Regional Economics
- Labour Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Macroeconomics and Growth
- Monetary Economics and Fluctuations
- Organizational Economics
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
Past events
Much Money, Little Capital, and Few Reforms: The 2023 Banking Turmoil
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- Financial Markets ![](../../../../../../../../../../var/folders/34/zq18d8kx7kbgby0j06p_j6t40000gn/T/TemporaryItems/NSIRD_screencaptureui_EM2XPo/Screenshot 2022-01-04 at 17.01.16.png)
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- International Finance ![](../../../../../../../../../../var/folders/34/zq18d8kx7kbgby0j06p_j6t40000gn/T/TemporaryItems/NSIRD_screencaptureui_EM2XPo/Screenshot 2022-01-04 at 17.01.16.png)
- Macroeconomic policy
CEPR Paris Symposium 2024
- Competition Policy
- European Economic Policy
- European Financial Architecture
- Fintech and Digital Currencies
- Geoeconomics
- Household Finance
- Inequality and the Role of Firms
- International Lending and Sovereign Debt
- Media Plurality
- Asset Pricing
- Banking and Corporate Finance
- Climate Change and the Environment
- Development Economics
- Economic History
- International Macroeconomics and Finance
- International Trade and Regional Economics
- Labour Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Macroeconomics and Growth
- Monetary Economics and Fluctuations
- Organizational Economics
- Political Economy
- Public Economics