Why has COVID-19 hit different European Union economies so differently?
This article explores why some countries have been hit economically more than…
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Below is a list of articles from the Banking and Finance magazine.
The world economy under COVID-19: can emerging market economies keep the engine running?
COVID-19 has led to profound turmoil and severe disruptions in our lives…
Public Finances: Will Belgium Have Fiscal Maneuvering Room to Overcome Future Challenges?
Since the nineteen seventies, our country has built up a bad reputation…
Weathering the COVID 19 storm: liquidity and solvency of Belgian firms
COVID-19 puts firms under severe strain in countries where the pandemic continues…
The slow recovery of Belgian firms stalled and the second lockdown of November 2020 makes the prospects even more bleak
Seven months after it was launched, the ERMG survey continues to take…
Lessons from the Swedish anti-corona strategy
Contrary to most other (European) countries, Sweden mainly relied on voluntary measures…
The EU Recovery Plan: bouncing back better together towards a green, digital and resilient Europe. What are the opportunities for Belgium?
This article highlights what the European Semester, the annual coordination cycle of…
Banks and Digitalization: Of Customers, Data, Transformation – and Payments
We are told that digitalization changes everything. The great disruption comes and…
The economic policy uncertainty index for Flanders, Wallonia and Belgium
This research note describes the construction of news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU)…
Does the EU convergence machine still work and how will the COVID19-crisis impact it?
Economic convergence has been one of the explicit goals of the EU…
Banking between two crises
The pandemic may prove to have the same effect on the financial…
Eurozone in Times of Covid-19: Debt Monetisation by Stealth
While the ECB is not allowed to monetise debt formally in the…