What kind of publications are included?
This collection will encompass the evidence-based analytical papers of the Commission's Internal Market, entrepreneurship and SMEs department, at times in collaboration with other Commission departments. 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 of this Commission department, at times in collaboration with others. The Chief Economist Team is responsible for the series’ publication, including the peer review of the papers.
This section also includes Working Papers that result from DG GROW’s Fellowship Programme.
WP2024/19 - This paper proposes an alternative policy to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): the Leakage Border Adjustment Mechanism (LBAM).
WP2024/17 - This essay suggests that there is a need for a Catalytic Industrial Policy (CIP) aimed at maximising positive outcomes on three axes at the same time – the green, the digital and the social – in order to speed up their realisation.
WP2023/15 - We examine whether the European Union (EU) is providing a model for other countries for product requirements aimed at protecting health, safety, and the environment.
WP2023/16 - This paper presents an analytical framework for identifying and assessing the regional impacts of the green transition.
WP2023/14 - This article develops an enhanced bottom-up and data-driven methodology to detect EU strategic dependencies using highly disaggregated product-level trade data.
2. Conference Papers
This collection encompasses the evidence-based analytical papers by external experts, which were selected for presentation at previous editions of DG GROW’s Single Market Research Conference, organised by the Chief Economist Team.
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.
WP2024/20 - This paper studies the general equilibrium effects of carbon permit banking during the transition to a climate-neutral economy by 2050.
WP2024/18 - This paper analyzes how European monetary integration has affected US outward FDI (OFDI), which we call the 'euro effect'.
WP2022/11 - (Why) do prices and inflation rates differ within the euro area? This paper studies the relevance of a national border between Austria and Germany for grocery prices, and finds large assortment and price differences between these two regions.
WP2022/13 - This paper studies the impact of the threat of trade barriers caused by the Brexit referendum on labour markets.
3. 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 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 highlights different angles of EU-China exposure across trade, investment and technology.
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.
