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.
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- Anke Hassel, Sofía Gómez, Jannik Jansen, Kilian Weil
WP2025/31 - Transitioning towards a greener economy means profound changes in industries and employment. This paper examines the challenges of employment transitions with a focus on the geographical and social implications of structural shifts.
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- Filippo Bontadini, Valentina Meliciani
WP2025/30 - This paper focuses on a selection of products where Europe has a dependence and on a set of products relevant for the twin transition and, based on the economic literature on capabilities, identifies which products are closest to countries’ productive capabilities.
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- Glenn Magerman, Alberto Palazzolo
WP2024/29 - This paper analyzes a policy toolbox encompassing trade, industrial, and public policies and their effects on the EU and its geographical regions.
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- Román Arjona, Cristina Herghelegiu, William Connell García
WP2024/28 - This paper investigates how the import relations of the European Union (EU) have recently shifted in an increasingly fragmented global trade environment.
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- Béatrice Dumont, Xosé-Luís Varela-Irimia
WP2024/27 - This paper aims to develop a ‘proof of concept’ for testing the resilience of sectoral supply chain networks at firm level against an exogenous shock to critical inputs.
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.
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- Andreas Reuter
This economic brief harnesses three high-quality business surveys to shed light on the significance of different obstacles to economic activity from the perspective of EU firms.
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- Maria Garrone, Giuseppe Marotta, Andreas Reuter
This economic brief takes a deep-dive into the European car industry, focusing on the drivers behind the decline of production in Germany, France and Italy.
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- William Connell García, Victor Ho
This brief introduces the EXternal Vulnerability Index (EXVI), a monitoring tool that uses trade data to identify and measure external vulnerabilities across various segments of the EU economy.
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- Pau Durá, Frank Vandermeeren
This economic brief assesses shifting trends in recent China-EU FDI developments and related implications on EU exposure.
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- José Manuel Rueda-Cantuche, Luis Enrique Pedauga, Juan Carlos Ruiz-García, Daria Ciriaci
The paper looks at the effects of state aid on the green transition and the EU Single Market.
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- Paolo Pasimeni
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.
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- Andrea Renda
Faced with several outstanding challenges and unresolved dilemmas, this brief analyses the future of EU industrial policy.
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- Francesca Guadagno, Robert Stehrer
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.
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- Marina Ranga
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.
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- William Connell García, Maria Garrone
This study considers some challenges in the automobile industry of the EU taking into account its relatively historical privileged international position.
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- Slavo Radosevic
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.
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- Román Arjona, Francesco Di Comite, Paolo Pasimeni
This economic brief provides an overview of economic and trade exposures of the EU economy to Russia, including on strategic dependencies.
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- William Connell García, Francesco Di Comite, Maria Garrone
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.
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- Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
This economic brief concerns ‘green bottlenecks’ and the role of finance in the green transition.