The Chief Economist Team is responsible for the series’ publication, including the peer review of the papers.
1. Working papers
This collection encompasses evidence-based analytical working papers elaborated by this Commission department, at times in collaboration with others.
It also includes working papers that result from DG GROW’s Fellowship Programme, as well as conference papers (evidence-based analytical papers by external experts) selected for presentation at previous editions of DG GROW’s Single Market Research Conference, organised by the Chief Economist Team.
WP2024/25 - The paper shows that the gains from European integration are substantial, albeit heterogeneous across Member States and sectors, and that the cost of strategic autonomy can be offset by deeper, but comparatively more modest, integration efforts within the European Single Market.
WP2024/24 - The EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is at the core of the bloc's industrial decarbonization efforts. This paper explores whether there is a causal relationship between industrial firms’ emission intensity and their economic and financial performance.
WP2024/23 - This paper focuses on how fragmented regulatory authority exposes foreign investors to expropriation and information risks.
WP2024/22 - This paper addresses these challenges to investigate the citizen-level elements of accountability in the European Single Market.
WP2024/21 - This paper focuses on the structural features of financial systems and builds an index to benchmark EU financial systems against their potential to enhance resilient growth and international risk sharing.
2. Economic briefs
This collection encompasses evidence-based analytical Economic Briefs by the Chief Economist Team, at times in collaboration with others. The Chief Economist Team is responsible for the series’ publication.
This section also includes Economic Briefs that result from DG GROW’s Fellowship Programme.
The paper looks at the effects of state aid on the green transition and the EU Single Market.
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. Drawing from the economic literature and descriptive analysis, the paper examines both anticipated benefits and realized outcomes.
The energy-renewables ecosystem (ERES) plays a particularly important role in the green transition. This paper analyses its relevance in EU countries and its competitiveness for the EU27 as a whole vis-à-vis other global players.
Faced with several outstanding challenges and unresolved dilemmas, this brief analyses the future of EU industrial policy.
This brief analyses how the European Green Deal adopted by the European Commission in December 2019 brought major opportunities to transform the EU’s single market for the net-zero age.
This study considers some challenges in the automobile industry of the EU taking into account its relatively historical privileged international position.
This brief explores the single market's transition from a rules-based open market to a mechanism focused on promoting green growth locally and globally.
This economic brief provides an overview of economic and trade exposures of the EU economy to Russia, including on strategic dependencies.
This brief analyses this ongoing energy crisis with respect to the EU industry, including the overall EU’s structural composition, price competitiveness and trade in the energy market vis-à-vis third partners.
This economic brief concerns ‘green bottlenecks’ and the role of finance in the green transition.
