Publications

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.

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.

Dashboard towards zero-emission vehicles.

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.

WP2024/22 - This paper addresses these challenges to investigate the citizen-level elements of accountability in the European Single Market.